In 1693 he was ordained as priest, and in 1694 he was appointed as the rector of the Episcopal Seminary of Macerata, where he taught rhetoric. There he began to collect material for what was to become Illyricum sacrum - a work on the history of countries that were a part of the former Roman province of Illyricum. In his work on collecting, studying and arranging the material he received help from the Archbishop of Split, Pacifico Bizza.
In 1720 the first draft of the work was published.
In 1729 it was decided that the work will also cover the secular history of Illyricum, and in 1740 the second draft was published. He died in Cesena.
