 As a young man, he had the favor of the Ducal family of Lucca, for whom he created numerous works including an image of the Immaculate Conception in the gable of a side door at the church of St Alexander.For the portico of the Uffizi in 1856, he sculpted the statue of Father Antonio Micheli.In the Florentine exhibition of 1861, he exhibited a bust of Sappho which is still in the Pitti Palace and the Wounded Amazon which is at the Quirinale.