He began his interest in Archaeology by studying the Etruscan civilization and taking advantage of the invaluable help of Giovan Battista Vermiglioli, combined with an interest in the dead languages,Greek language and Latin cultivated together with the Greekist Antonio Mezzanotte.

Published Biographies of the Venture Captains of Umbria in 1846, joined the semi-clandestine movements of the Carbonari and Giuseppe Mazzini Italia.

Finding himself in the Roma at the time of the Roman Republic (1849–1850), he was also elected to the constituent assembly, unless he later had to emigrate first to Florence and then to Turin to escape papal repression.

Between 1846 and 1849 he taught archaeology at the University of Perugia and in the same city directed the Musei Civici (whose collections are now preserved in the Museo archeologico nazionale dell'Umbria).

In 1875 he was appointed a member of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and in 1881 he was among the founders of the “Francesco Guardabassi” Lodge of Perugia.