He travelled around most European countries (he travelled in the entourage of Duke of Amalfi). He lived a great part of the Thirty Years War and visited most European countries.
His book Vida i hechos de Estabanillo González, un hombre de buen humor (1648) is a humoristic and biographic story, where he describes the most heroic events of the Thirty Years' War. This book was translated into English, French and Italian.