His work was appreciated for the rich captions and notes accompanying its translations, so that it dubbed him the "Delille of Italy".
He purchased his personal safety by professing his adherence to revolutionary doctrine, but eventually quit Paris, and retired to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, where he completed his translation of the Aeneid.
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