[1] His large work, La Resurrezione, is installed in the Aula Paolo VI in the Vatican City in Rome.

As a boy he worked with his brothers in the family carpentry workshop, where he learned to carve wood.

In 1930, with the help of the poet Mario Rivosecchi, he moved to Rome to study at the Scuola libera del nudo.

In 1932 he took part in a competition for the Pensionato Artistico Nazionale of the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, the Italian ministry of arts and education, and with his low-relief Uscita dall'arca ("leaving the ark") won a two-year bursary.

[4] He started work on his large bronze La Resurrezione for the new Aula Paolo VI in the Vatican City in 1970, although he was not formally commissioned to make it until 1972.