[1] The local count Fedele Norcen took an interest in his education, and he entered the school of design directed by Agostino Occofer.
[2] By age 19, he had won an architecture prize from the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, and enrolled the next year.
[3] In 1826, he left the academy and participated in various architectural projects in Feltre, Malamocco, and Venice, including a chapel for the Canon Bartolomeo Villabruna and restorations for the Duomo of Oderzo.
Among his further projects were the church of Santa Maria Nascente in Agordo; the town hall and Palazzo Cappellari in Belluno; a tempietto in Mel; the theater of Serravalle; the church of San Lucano in Villapiccola; and an oratory in Busta.
In 1855, he completed the stucco decorations for the church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in the neighborhood of Levada in Piombino Dese.