Over the fifty years he served as a professor in Bologna Melchiorre acquired such a reputation that his colleagues honoured him with a public inscription during his lifetime.

His funeral involved an elaborate procession to the Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi, where he was buried, and a eulogy by his colleague André Torelli.

Among many treatises on scholastic philosophy and some pamphlets, whose titles can be found in the Scrittori bolognesi by Orlandi,[1] Melchior also wrote two comedies and four tragedies.

The comedies were Diogene accusato (Venice, 1598, in-12), written in verses of five, seven and nine syllables, and Il Giuliano, whilst the tragedies were Admeto, Medea, Creusa and Meandro (all Bologna, 1629, in-12).

Ghilini called Melchior a microcosm of sciences and letters and gave him and his father pieces in his Teatro d'uomini letterati.