Career
In 1750 he published a biography of Saint Jerome. Monumenti Storici della Provincia Francescana di Ragusa (Neapel). He was also a great student of the "Ilyrian" (Croatian) language, publishing several books on this subject:
De Illiricae linguae vetustate et amplitudine, Venice 1754";
Fasti litterarii Ragusini, sive vivorum literatorum qui usque ad annum 1766 n Ragusina claruerunt ditione prospectus alphab.ordine exhibitus.."(Venice 1767).
About the Ragusan/Dubrovnik Literary Chronicle)
In the theological scope, Slade translates the epistle of Hyeronymi Francisci Zanetti to illirian language (Ferrara, 1754).