He won several European Rowing Championships and was set to go to the 1912 Summer Olympics when his team was banned from competitions for a year.

[1] Like some of his brothers, he became a rower for the Venetian rowing club Francesco Querini named for the polar explorer who died in 1900.

That success qualified them for the 1905 European Rowing Championships in Ghent where they won silver, beaten by the team from Belgium.

They became Italian champions and then beat the famous Belgian pair of Guillaume Visser and Urbain Molmans to take the 1906 European title in Pallanza.

Both clubs were banned from competitions for one year by the Italian Rowing Federation and Italy's Olympic appearance in the eight was cancelled.