[1] He went to teach rhetoric at the Jesuit college in Lisbon, where he taught alongside Cypriano de Soarez.

[1] He regularly gave speeches, including the inaugural address at the University of Coimbra in October 1555.

[1] He was ordained a priest by Bishop João Nunes Barreto, Patriarch of Ethiopia the same month.

[1] He also delivered the funeral oration for Prince Luis, the brother of King John III of Portugal, in 1555.

[1] At the request of Francesco Adorno, he wrote De ratione liberorum instituendorum literis Graecis et Latinis (How to Teach Children Latin and Greek).