 He trained locally under his grandfather, a sculptor, but moved to Naples where he frequented the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts under Tito Angelini.In 1878, he displayed sculptures of "Eve and Lucifer" and "Guappatiello" (Neapolitan Street Boy) in 1878 at the Neapolitan Exhibition.In 1880, he displayed sculptures of "Victa" (bust), "Marion", and the "Legionnaires of Germanicus" at the National Exhibition in Turin.