"But his most important work is the Istoria in quattro libri, which circulated in manuscript until the distant 1768 - when it was printed not without infidelities and omissions by the bookseller G. Gravier in the Raccolta di tutti i più rinomati scrittori dell'istoria generale del Regno di Napoli (Naples 1768, VI, pp. 31-143) - and was so "popular" that it soon became the incunabulum of local historical, anecdotal and legendary traditions. To the seventeenth-century manuscript in the Brancacciana Library (III, A, 9), traced by Capasso, should be added the eighteenth-century one contained in the cod. Vat. lat. 11 -735 with the title Ristoria delli rumori di Napoli. The work harks back to the Neapolitan historiographical tradition of the sixteenth century, with a dramatic tendency (especially in the calculated rhetorical play of the dialogues) and at times with sumptuous settings not without almost fairy-tale touches. The central and most important part of the chronicle (the one for which it is still held in high regard by historians today, due to the breadth of documentation and objectivity of reconstruction) concerns the aforementioned uprising of 1547, which Capasso courageously regarded as a civil movement decisive for the further development of the history of Naples. (Treccani online, sub vocis )