He was also deeply influenced by the Natural History by Pliny.[1] After a number of voyages across Italy and the Mediterranean and a period of six years he spent on Crete,[2] in 1499 he moved to Izola due to his work duties as a municipal scribe, where he married Colotta di Ugo from a rich Izola family. He was active in the public life of the town, where he worked as a notary, and also represented it on several occasions before the Doge of Venice.[3]