[2] From 1867 to 1868 he earned a licentiate in philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and then studied theology at Collegio Capranica.

He was pastor of a parish in London for several months[2] and then returned to Naples where he devoted himself to preaching to French and English pilgrims and converting Protestants.

Pope Leo XIII made him a member of the papal nobility as Assistant to the Pontifical Throne on 20 August 1878.

[1][4] He was named Apostolic Nuncio to France on 26 October 1882, but Pope Leo granted his request to retain the see of Benevento, to which he eventually returned.

He died suddenly of pneumonia on 16 May 1897 at the abbey of Montecassino, where he had stopped en route to Rome where he planned to attend the canonization ceremony for Anthony Zaccaria.