As a young man he painted the frescoes depicting the Story of the Aeneid for the Sala Consiliare di Civitanova Marche.
At ten years old he moved with his family to Perugia; Ulisse's father engaged in the construction of the railway line.
He painted a St Francis in Death in the Chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli (la Porziuncola), which was commissioned and exhibited in 1883 at Rome.
In 1884 to Turin, he sent the canvas: Semper pauper, and in 1887 to Venice, La Virgin del Rosario.
[6] He also painted an altarpiece of Santa Margherita Maria Alacoque (1914) for the church of Sant Antonio Abate at Monte Rubiaglio.