Presented to Cardinal Federico Borromeo by his uncle, Francesco Bernardino, he was elected Professor of Rhetoric at the Collegium Ambrosianum in Milan at the age of 22.

In 1634 he was appointed professor of philosophy and Greek literature at the University of Padua, which he helped to rescue from a state of decline.

For a panegyric which he recited in praise of Christina, Queen of Sweden (Pallas Svecica, 1651), he was rewarded by a gold collar, valued at one thousand ducats.

[1] Another eulogy published in honour of Louis XIV obtained him a pension of five hundred crowns for five years.

[2] He composed seven books on the history of the city; but the want of necessary documents, together with the fear of offending the House of Habsburg on the one hand, and his benefactor the king of France on the other, caused him to leave his papers unfinished and unpublished.