Career
He went to Rome where he studied under Jacopo Sansovino. He was captured three times during the sack of Rome in 1527, and then fled to Florence. Upon his return to Rome, about 1530, he accompanied his master to Venice where he carved the Apollo on the fountain in the Zecca, and St. Jerome, in San Salvatore. With his pupil, Gerolamo Campagna, he executed the tomb of Gian Fregoso in Sant' Anastasia, Verona. He also carved the bust on the tomb of Cardinal Pietro Bembo in Sant' Antonio, Padua. As a poet he wrote Dell' amor di Marfisa, 1562, which was much admired by Torquato Tasso. He died in Padua in 1573, leaving the reliefs for the Capella del Santo in Sant' Antonio to be finished by Campagna.