He studied under Vernet and Charles-François Lacroix de Marseille (1700–1782).
Foreign Eugène Beauharnais he painted the Italian harbors, two of which, Ancona and Malamocco, with a landscape, are in the gallery of the Castle Brera at Milan. Fidanza died in Milan in 1819. The father of Francesco Fidanza was Filippo Fidanza, who was born at Sabina in 1720.
He was instructed in painting by Marco Benefial at Rome.
He died in 1790. Francesco"s brother, Gregorio, was a disciple of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa, whom he imitated with success in his landscapes. He died in 1820.