He was born in 1648. His definite birthplace has not been established, and it is thought to have been in either
Skopska Crna Gora, or the surroundings of
Prizren or
Peja. At the time these were part of the Ottoman
Sanjak of Üsküb and
Sanjak of Prizren. He most likely enrolled in the primary school and
theological school of Janjevo. After studying in Italy he was appointed parish priest in
Prizren in 1679. With the outbreak of the
Great Turkish War, the
Austrian Empire sought allies in
Southeastern Europe. On November 1, This has been interpreted by some Yugoslav historians as being Albanian Catholic
Pjetër Bogdani,
Archbishop of Skopje, and
Arsenije III Čarnojević, the
Serbian Patriarch. Those sources claim that Piccolomini consulted with Patriarch Arsenije and Archbishop Bogdani about the organization of newly recruited rebels and providing food for them, and Raspasani helped Piccolomini a lot, as the negotiations went through him as he knew Latin and Italian. However the
patriarch could not have been the Serbian Patriarch, since "he was absent from the region at that time".
General Federico Veterani succeeded Piccolomini. The Austrians began fortifying
Niš, and Lieutenant colonel
Antonije Znorić returned from
Belgrade to Niš with 2,500 infantry of the
Serbian Militia after the order of Veterani; Raspasani was also with them, as a translator. Raspasani wrote in 1693 that many of the Catholics of Kosovo had left for
Budapest, "where most of them died, some of hunger, others of disease". == Later life and death ==