He served as a commander in a galley naval ship and at the age of 24, he participated in the
battle of Lepanto with his
galley Cristo. His
fiefdom included the villages of Voni, Zofori and
Thrapsano in today's prefecture of
Heraklion. In 1591 he founded the
Philological Academy of the Weird (L' Accademia degli Stravaganti) in
Candia (now Heraklion). He wrote hundreds of poems in Italian. He also wrote
History of Crete (Historia Candiana). These works were saved but never printed. He died in 1616, at the age of 69. His burial took place in the
monastery of Saint Francisco in
Candia. ==References==