[3] In 1463 he was parish priest of the church of Saint Agatha in Venice, and he served also as teacher of the altar servers for St Mark's Basilica.
Supported by the Senate, on 26 August 1468 he obtained the appointment of bishop of Kruja (Croja), a town in Albania.
[2] Since 1471 Petro Bruto was appointed vicar of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Zeno, bishop of Vicenza, where he lived up to his death.
In Vicenza his pastoral activity was grounded on his aversion to the Jews, based both on theological reasons and on the disappointment for the alleged (later resulted as false) ritual killing of toddler Simon of Trent.
[2] His main work Victoria contra Iudaeos was published in Vicenza in 1489, and never re-printed but it is known a translation in Italian dated 1499.