Career
His birthplace, Teramo, was then part of the Kingdom of Naples (now in the Italian region of Abruzzo). After studying canon law at the University of Padua he was archdeacon at Aversa in 1384, and held several posts at the Papal Curia before being appointed successively bishop of Monopoli (1391), bishop of Taranto (1400), bishop of Florence (1401), and bishop of Spoleto (1410), where, as bishop, he was also Papal governor of the Duchy of Spoleto. In 1417 Pope Martin V sent him as legate to Poland, where he died the same year.