 Official honours were lavished on him from as early as 1725, when he was made a Knight of the Golden Spur; in February 1727, he was elected an "accademico di merito" of the Accademia di San Luca.The pope's patronage saw Raguzzini ultimately serve in almost every major public architectural office in the city.The most significant posts he held were those in which he supplanted the much older and highly respected Roman architect, Alessandro Specchi, whose most important work, the Porto di Ripetta, had been executed in the reign of Clement XI