In Naples, he won a silver medal and a further award for his submission of a clay model of Procris dying in the Arms of Cephalus, which he presented to the Provincial Council of Salerno.

He then went to Rome and finished a Flavio Gioia, Return of Dinah and Jacob, a St John the Baptist, a Virgin of the Purity, and a Noli me tangere.

He returned to Naples, but his works attracted the attention of Victor Emmanuel II, the King of Italy.

He moved to Turin, where he was commissioned a monument to Massimo d'Azeglio as well as a highly dynamic equestrian monument to Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, where the Prince attempts to stand up in mid-battle, while his wounded horse falls.

In 1875, he went to Rome, and in 1900, his statue of Flavio Gioja won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, one year before his death.