Career
He was born in Agrigento, Sicily, known in Sicilian language as Girgenti. He studied, along with a Giuseppe Camerata from Sciacca, under Fedele Fischetti. He became the president of the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts at the beginning of the 19th century.
He made a copy of Raphael"s Repose in Egypt He painted a Sleeping Cupid, of which a copy is found in the Museo Pepoli in Trapani.
