His father, Iacopo della Biava (Biada), a baker and draper born in Monza but resident in Verona since 1433, had married Iacopa Solimani, daughter of the painter Zenone, in 1438.

From this union Liberale is supposed to have been born, considering that a document from 1481 identifies him as a nephew of the Veronese painter Nicolò Solimani, Zenone's son.

Having also been orphaned by his father, in 1465 Liberale was still living in Verona, where on 19 January he appeared as a witness in a deed of concession of the Olivetan monastery of Santa Maria in Organo, in which he is said to be working as a baker.

It can only be assumed that in these circumstances he had made a definitive return to the north, since there is no further news of him until 9 Sept. 1481, when he signed an agreement with Nicolò Solimani to decorate the Tonso Chapel in the Servite Church of the Annunziata in Rovato; however, there is no trace of these frescoes..[2]

The information provided by Vasari, according to which Liberale died on Saint Clare's Day (11 August) in 1536, is contradicted by the Verona registry office of 1529, which mentions the painter as already deceased.