He was a pupil of François Duquesnoy, whose classicising "Greek" manner[1] was the antithesis to Gian Lorenzo Bernini's.
Boselli was a member of the prestigious Accademia di San Luca in Rome, in which he served as its Principe for the year 1667 until his death on September 23.
The treatise by Pomponius Gauricus, De sculptura offers a passage on bronze-casting by the lost-wax method.
The Proemio of Giorgio Vasari's Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori presents some workshop information on the practices of the architect, the sculptor and the painter.
The other, not published until 1939 and known only to art historians, is Orfeo Boselli's manuscript Osservationi della Scoltura antica written in the 1650s.