[14] At the age of 23, he held a personal exhibition at the Mentana gallery in Florence, entitled “The Floating Geometry”; a testimonial event for the Greenpeace campaign against whale hunting in Norway.
[16] One of the most important canvasses of the painter known only through a publication of 1861, when it was exhibited by the artist to the Florentine Promoter, and dispersed since then, wandering around the English antique market as an Italian arts school of the nineteenth century.
In 2008, he brought to light the "Boldini-Cardona Archive", until then dispersed, that contains 370 photographs and unpublished letters which document, inter alia, the extramarital relationship between Emilia Cardona Boldini and the sculptor Francesco La Monaca.
[21] In the same month, he was invited to proclaim a lectio magistralis about Giovanni Boldini at LUMSA University in Rome [22] and, subsequently, he received the Pontevecchio Award in Florence.
In the text of the catalog he explores the relationship between Boldini and D'Annunzio,[29] publishing his unpublished and secret correspondence, also bringing for the first time to light the conceptual and stylistic debt of the poet towards the “fortunysmo”, the pictorial current belonging to the Spanish artist Marià Fortuny i Marsal.