Interno del Panteon

Copper engraver, active in the first half of the 19th century. He lacks precise personal data and lexicographers usually ignore his name. Very active since 1826, at the service of the Calcografia Camerale and private publishing in Rome (Franzetti, Cuccioni, Antonelli, Piale, Monaldini), in that year he collaborated to the New collection of one hundred main views of Rome and its surroundings, together with Pietro Parboni, Francesco Rinaldi and Pietro Ruga. In the same year he signed an Interior of the Pantheon for Antonelli, who spread it especially abroad, and he fired a Map of the vestiges of Rome according to the observations of Antonio De Romanis... by Antonio Nibby, edited by Venanzio Monaldini bookseller, from which his reputation as a cartographer is consolidated and in 1827 and 1829 he was commissioned by the Chalcography of the Chamber of Commerce to engrave two large Plants of Rome, one different from the other. But his health conditions, which had been bad for a long time, did not allow him to keep his commitment in full; therefore in May 1834, as it results from an annotation on the State of the engravers who were behind in the work of that Institute, he asked that the task be switched to a single plant, to be engraved "for the price of p(aoli) 3000 about" (it is perhaps the Plan of Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century, inserted, as anonymous, in the catalog of the Calcografia Camerale).