Career
These also he left in 1648, for the Franciscans. In Portugal he sided with the House of Braganza. Summoned to Rome by Pope Alexander VII, he taught theology at the College of the Propaganda, and afterwards church history at the Sapienza, and as consultor to the Inquisition.
At Venice in 1667, during the week beginning 26 September, he held a public disputation, against all comers, on nearly every branch of human knowledge, especially the Bible, theology, patrology, history, law, literature, and poetry.
He named this disputation, in his quaint and extravagant style, "Leonis Marci rugitus litterarii" (the literary roaring of the Lion of Street Mark). This obtained for him the freedom of the city of Venice and the professorship of moral philosophy at the University of Padua.