Trofi was said to have been born in Viterbo in the late 1480s, but it is unclear with whom he trained.
The obvious cited master is Antonio del Massaro (ca.
1450–1516), the main local artist of the prior generation.
[3] The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore has two tablets depicting St Anthony Abbot and St Sebastian, attributed to Trofi, and dated circa 1505.
[4] He painted a Deposition located in the Museo Nazionale of Tarquinia dated 1507.