From 1725 on he studied at the Poveri di Gesù music conservatory, where his teachers included Gaetano Greco and his successor Francesco Durante.
[1] He may have worked for the prince of Bisignano, and is also said to have been the organist at the San Filippo Neri church in Naples.
[1] In 1738, his first opera, Achille in Sciro, premiered in Rome, as did Il vello d'oro in 1740 and Farnace in 1742.
Other works premiered in Turin, including La clemenza di Tito in December 1738 and Artaserse in 1741.
That same year saw the premiere of Titus in Venice, while Naples was the first place were, in 1746, Il vecchio deluso was performed.