After completing his studies, he served as secretary for various noble families, including the Carafa and the Pignatelli.
[1] In 1599 he was appointed Secretary of the Grand Court of the Admiralty by the Prince of Conca, Matteo di Capua, Great Admiral of Naples.
[1] He drew on the experience he gained in these years for his Trattato dell'officio del segretario (1604).
He was acquainted with some important Neapolitan men of letters of the day, including the poet and scholar Giovanni Battista Attendolo, the poet and historian Angelo di Costanzo and the scholar Julius Capaccio.
[1] His best known work is Il fuggilozio (1601), a collection of short stories modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, dedicated to Matteo di Capua, and reissued several times.