Career
He wrote poetry in Italian and also in Serbo-Croatian. With Amalteo and Nascimbeni he founded a literary academy, the "Academy of Concords". The members met in the Palace of Customs, to read their rhymes.
Bobali contracted syphilis at a young age.
Because of his condition he had to move to his castle in Ston near Dubrovnik, where he spent segregated the most part of his life. There he work on his poetry and studying.
He complained in his poems of his physical condition, that it did not allowed him to live according to his impetuous nature. He wished to traveling He was fascinated by Italy, but he was never able to go there.
Bobali is remembered also as a patient.
His disease was studied by one of the most celebrated doctors of his time. When he was 30, his disease was described by the Portuguese doctor Amatus Lusitanus (João Rodriguez). The work was published in 1560.
Here it is written of a patient sick of syphilis, who complains of vertigo and loss of hearing.
He became totally deaf. Bobali died in Ston in 1585, at the age of 55 years.