He abjured Protestantism, and like Muretus, sold his pen to Rome.

The Jesuits, in his pompous panegyric, were first saluted as 'the praetorian cohort of the camp of God.' Afterwards, when he quarreled with their Order, he showered invectives on them in the manner of a Poggio or Filelfo.

The literary infamies of the fifteenth century reappeared in his polemical attacks on Protestants, and in his satires upon Scaliger.

Yet he was a man of versatile talents and considerable erudition.

It must be mentioned in his honor that he visited Campanella in his prison, and exerted himself for his liberation.