After studying at a seminary in Camerino, he was ordained a priest, but obtained permission to study painting in Rome for twelve years in the studio of Luigi Fontana, then in the Roman Academy of San Luca (Academy of Fine Arts).
[3] In 1883 in Rome, he displayed a canvas depicting: The funeral of the Blessed Camilla Battista da Varano of the Duchy of Camerino.
[4] At the 1884 National Exposition of Turin, he exhibited a Santa Lucia before Paschasius, Roman prefect of Syracuse,[5] now at the church of San Venanzio in Camerino.
In 1889 painted the fresco murals of the apse of the church del convent of the Passionists at Sant’Angelo in Pontano with scenes of the life of the Virgin.
[6] In 1891, he completed an altarpiece depicting Apparition of the Sacred Heart to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque for the Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei.