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Gem engraver, wax sculptor and medalist, born in the Abruzzi. He was a student of Niccolo Ranieri and was first active in Chieti (1780) and Rome (1785), where he was a friend of Antonio Canova. After 1797 he worked in Florence where he became a teacher of cameo and gem engraving at the academy in 1808. See Forrer 5, pp. 334-35; 8, pp. 187-88; Thieme-Becker 29, p. 428; Pyke, pp. 127-28; C. Johnson, "La storia metallica' di Maria Luigia Duchessa di Parma," in Medaglia, anno. 2, no. 3 (1972), pp. 42-82. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976