[2][3] He began working as a farmer and later he started his career as member of the Carabinieri, rising to the rank of sergeant, for which he was known as "the Marshal".

[7] For Viaggio nel Sud, he won the 1959 Giacomo De Benedetti Lerici Prize.

[5] Seccareccia also wrote Le isolane (1960), another collection of poetry, published by Lerici.

Since his death, some of his material including poems, short stories, and a novel have been published posthumously.

[1][8] In 1959, Seccareccia and fellow poets Giorgio Caproni, Elio Filippo Accrocca, and Ugo Reale began the Frascati National Poetry Prize, an annual poetry competition for previously unpublished works.