Silvestro Valeri

[1] As a young man, he was enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of St Luke in Rome.

One of his first works was a San Primo, commissioned by Prince Don Filippo Doria for the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome.

The Prince also commissioned a Nativity for the church of the Fornari Tedeschi, next to Sant' Andrea della Valle.

Among his pupils were Annibale Brugnoli, Ulisse Ribustini, Domenico Bruschi, Francesco Moretti, Count Lemmo Rossi Scotti, Eliseo Fattorini, and Luigi Sabatini.

In 1873, he retired, married as his second wife the contessa Sistilia Francisci, widow of Piccini, and moved to a small villa (villetta Torricella) near Todi.