[1] He attended the Roman College, where he studied under Famiano Strada, Bernardino Stefonio and Terenzio Alciati.
[3] Tronsarelli is best remembered for the libretto of Domenico Mazzocchi's La catena d'Adone, based on episodes from Giambattista Marino's epic poem L'Adone (1623).
[2] In 1632 he collected and published all his drammi per musica (except for two: La catena d'Adone and Dafne) in a single edition.
[4] Tronsarelli contributed a good deal of the text of Giovanni Baglione's Lives of the painters, sculptors, architects, including the 22 Latin distichs that preface the work.
[5] He was the author of several antiquarian works, including Le grandezze di Roma, a compilation from the Justus Lipsius' Admiranda, sive de Magnitudine Romana published as a supplement to the Italian translation of Orazio Torsellino's Ristretto dell'historie del mondo.