sentences:  On the completion of his early studies at the Jesuit college at Görz (then in Austria), he entered the Dominican Order making his religious profession in March 1708, in the convent of Sts.Martin and Rose.After studying philosophy three years, he was sent to study theology in the convent of the Holy Rosary at Venice, where he spent eight years under the direction of the fathers of his order, Andruisso and Zanchio.