Career
He was considered an extraordinarily intellectual figure in the Europe of his time, however he was ignored for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as if he was a mere shadowy scholar. This was for several different reasons, as much circumstantial as general interest. He first settled in Ferrara, and then the Marquis of Bianchi welcomed him to his palace in Mantua.
Here, he enjoyed life with the Marquis"s family, until the arrival of Napoleon, more than twenty years of happy and productive stay that allowed him to complete the major part of his work.