Career
At the age of 16, he moved to Salerno and was initially self-trained as a painter. He even taught design at the Seminary of Salerno and a school run by Benedictines. He would paint from Cava de" Tirreni until 1855, when then went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples under Filippo Palizzi.
He first participated at the Promotrice of Naples in 1862, with a Children of Jefte.
In 1864, Virtue and Labor. He then began producing works of genre and history.
At the Turin exhibition of 1884, he exhibited Socrates visits Aspasia. Other works include Vendemmiatori precoci (exhibited in 1886 at Naples).
L"operaio e la sua famiglia, (exhibited in 1893 at Milan).
And Consulto in Convento(1887). In 1881, he became professor of design, figure, and perspective at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, and later professor of perspective at the Academy in Salerno. He published a text on perspective: Corso Completo di Prospettiva Ragionata 2nd edizione. in Naples 1880.
The text was used in the Institute at Naples.
He painted the Dance of the Hours in the Sala Rossa of the Casino dei Nobili in Salerno, where he worked alongside Giulio Minervini, Carlo Tito Dalbono, Demetrio Salazaro, and Federico Travaglini.
