Career
Later on he published “Saggio sull"uomo”, based on the system of Descartes. Stay came from the Stay family from Antivari (Bar) (now Montenegro). At the age of 28, he journeyed to Rome and became the pupil of Silvio Valenti Gonzaga at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Pope Clement XIII conferred on him the position of secretary of Latin letters and Clement XIV named him Head of the Secretariat.
He died on February 25, 1801.