Although he was arrested in Erzerum and escaped Ottoman agents, taking refuge in residence of Nicholas Friton, Bishop of Nakhchivan,[2] he eventually made it to Tabriz in July, 1572.
Arriving in Qazvin around August, he failed to meet Shah Tahmasp, but managed to gain a lot of information about him.
With unsuccessful result, he returned to Venice and made an oral report to the Senate in September, 1574, which is regarded as harsh and partial according to some researchers.
[1][3] Once in Venice, he resumed his career in chancery, becoming an ordinary notary and obtaining an office for a son as compensation "than he could at any time claim for his trip to Persia".
Although exempted from this task due to illness, he negotiated in Venice, on behalf of the Senate, with Bosnian merchants and diplomats in 1589.