 He visited Rome between 1546 and 1547 and also met Gian Giorgio Trissino and the poet Marco Thiene, he was member of the Accademia Olimpica (Olympic Academy) in Venice where he designed costumes for the play "Oedipus Rex", the first opera presented at the Palladio-designed Teatro Olimpico.As a poet, he wrote satires in the Paduan dialect (and precisely in a now-dead form of it, called ), under the nickname Magagnò.His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter.