Odoardo Fischetti

He was born to the fresco painter Fedele Fischetti and his wife Marianna, née Borrelli.

[3] They were commissioned by Duke Ascanio Della Torre, the author of various scientific reports on the volcano's eruptions.

[2] With the arrival of the French Napoleonic administration of Joachim Murat in 1808, he painted a series of historical canvases, including Murat Directs the Capture of Capri from Massa Lubrense and its companion piece, Capture of Capri by the French.

These include a Virgin, Saint Blaise, Andrea, Erasmo and Alfonso Maria de Liguori (1821), for the Ccollegiata di San Giovanni Battista in Avella; a Madonna and Child between Saints Simon and Jude; for the church of Santa Maria della Mercede a Montecalvario; a Transport of the Holy Ark (1823), for the church of San Biagio in Cardito; and a Saint Francis receiving the Stigmata, for the Oratorio della Confraternita dei Bianchi dei Santi Francesco e Matteo [it] in Naples.

[2] He was married twice: to Emilia Catozzi, with whom he had four children, and Maria Giuseppa Milzi, who gave him another five.