Career
Pisani"s ancestors of French-Italian origin settled at the Levant at the end of the 18th century. They served French and Russian embassies in Constantinople. Pisani was therefore fluent in French and Italian and also had some knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.
Pisani was ordained a priest in 1878 and received his Doctor of Literature in 1893.
He was a professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1888 to 1889 and from 1908 to 1922.