Career
He was reappointed, however, in 1867. And in 1891 he was transferred to the University of Rome Louisiana Sapienza. He became prominent both as an orientalist, a publicist and a poet.
He maintained close ties with Romanian orientalists.
At International Congress of Orientalists from Florence in 1878 he invited Bogdan Petriceicu Haşdeu, a prominent writer and philologist. He founded the Italia letteraria (1862), the Rivista orientale (1867), the Civiltà italiana and Rivista europea (1869), the Bollettino italiano degli studii orientali (1876) and the Revue internationale (1883), and in 1887 became director of the Giornale della società asiatica.
In 1878 he started the Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei. He also published a similar anthology for the visual arts and architecture.
His Oriental and mythological works include the Piccola enciclopedia indiana (1867), the Fonti vediche (1868), a famous work on zoological mythology (1872), and another on plant mythology (1878).
He also edited the encyclopaedic Storia universale della letteratura (1882-1885). His work in verse includes the dramas Gala, Romolo, Il re Nala, Don Rodrigo, Savitri, et cetera
