Career
He was a Lombard and resident in Milan. He painted near life size historical or mythologic tableaux. Foreign example, he painted a 3/4 size group representing Diomede che precipita Pantasilea nello Scamandro.
Among other works are the Toilette of Venus, and the statue semicolossale depicting: Archimedes Burning the Ships of Marcellus with Concave Mirrors exhibited in 1872 at Milan, along with Louisiana sera che indica ai popoli il riposo, il silenzio e la calma.
In 1884 at Turin, he exhibited an equestrian group, depicting: Una lotta. And a marble statue: The discovery of Archimedes.
Other works of Villa are: L"Aurora che sveglia i popoli dal sonno. Hagar heals Samuel, and other statues of biblical and mythologic themes.
A neogothic house apparently designed by him in central Florence was Palazzo Villa on Via Il Prato 22 corner via Santa Lucia.
