Career

Amongst others, he was the first scholar from the Armand Hammer Centre for Leonardo Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles (1981), directed by Carlo Pedretti. He taught at the University of Progetto in Reggio Emilia. And he is honorary professor at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence.

He began as an artist from 1964 to 1971 winning more than 80 prizes in painting competitions.

In 1980 he curated the Centro di Documentazione Arti Visive of the Municipality of Florence (with Maurizio Nannucci).

Achievements

• In the Seventies he was the founder of the “Archivio Leonardisimi” and of Strumenti-Memoria del Territorio. He coordinated "ArteCronaca", he was the historical-artistic consultant of the Municipality of Vinci and he collaborated on the publications on Tuscany and Leonardo, modern and contemporary art He is the founder and director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci with the nascent “Garden of Leonardo and of Utopia” at Vinci, near Florence.