He is best known as the author of the Baroque novel L'historia del cavalier perduto (1644), which may have been a source for Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, and combines chivalric, picaresque, and political themes.

[1] Pace Pasini was the son of Pietro, a descendant of a family originally from Valle Sabbia, who had moved to Schio and then to Vicenza, where he was ascribed to the Noble Council of the city.

[2] In the mid-seventeenth century - around the time of Pace's death - a member of the Pasini family from Vicenza figured among the merchants of silk and thick cloths.

[3] Pace was a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti, one of the most active and lively Venetian Academies of the seventeenth century.

In March 1624 Pace was sentenced to five years of exile in Zara, later reduced by about half (he was acquitted and released on 28 January 1627).