He taught canon law from 1466 to 1474 at Ferrara, which was his family's native place, and at Pisa until 1484, when he became auditor of the Sacred Palace and lived at Rome.
He was a canon law professor from 1466 to 1474, teaching in Ferrara, his ancestral home, and then moved to Pisa for another period before becoming an auditor at the Sacred Palace in Rome.