Background
He was born in Piombino, the illegitimate son of Emanuele Appiani.
He was born in Piombino, the illegitimate son of Emanuele Appiani.
Despite his reduced finances, he was a patron of the arts: people he housed in his court include the architect Andrea Guardi, which, in 1465–1470, executed a large urbanistic and architectonical renewal of Piombino.
