 Francesco was re-elected as the municipal chief in 1894 after a tumultuous election.He was affiliated with the Serb Catholic movement in 19th-century Dubrovnik and belonged to the pro-Italian Autonomist Party, but he himself wrote that he ""wasn't Croatian, Serbian or Italian in his ethnic affiliation, rather a Ragusan" ("Raguseo")".In 1893 he opened the monument for Ivan Gundulić in Gundulić Square during the politically controversial unveiling of the Gundulić monument.