Career
Born in Gaeta, He trained with Andrea da Salerno and with Perino del Vaga in Rome. He apparently wrote a series of biographies of Neapolitan painters. In Naples, he painted a Adoration of the Magi in Santa Maria del Rosario.
In San Lorenzo, he painted a Christ bearing his Cross.
He also left paintings in Gaeta. One of his pupils was Francesco Curia.