[2] When a child he was introduced to painting and music, but he had a real aptitude for humanities: he studied letters and poetics with the famous poet and jurisconsult Marco Gentilucci from Spoleto who had com to Alcamo by chance and covered several important offices from 1576 to 1594.

[1] Bagolino's natural ability in writing Latin lines procured him the admittance, even very young, into the house of Francesco Moncada, prince of Paternò, patron of several literates and whom he dedicated various works to.

Bagolino studied humanistic poets, but as he did not feel amalgamated from the intellectual point of view, he went back to Palermo, under the protection of Francesco Moncada, prince of Paternò again.

He put his knowledge on painting and music at Moncada's disposal, accompanying him on his frequent trips to his estates: to Caltanissetta, Adernò, Siracusa, Militello, until he had a quarrel with Monacada's mother, Aloisa Luna.

[2] After his solemn funeral, Bagolino’s mortal remains were buried in the Church of the Holy Crucifix (or saint Francis of Paola) in Alcamo; inside it, there is a memorial stone, with the epitaph that the poet himself had written before his death:[3] Tu quicumque mei ferris per saxa sepulcri, Attonitus lacrymes non rogo morte mea; Sed responsurae tantum iace verba favillae, ‘Et dicas : cinis hic num Bagolinus erat?