Young man with a very bright talent, he took his degree in Catania at the age of 19 and left for Naples, where he improved following Petrante and Cattolica ‘s teachers; he competed for the chair of Botany at the University in Catania, but he couldn’t teach, because he died very young at the age of 22 in 1829. Member of the Accademia Gioenia, he left a work Sul modo di provvedere alla conservazione del pus vaccino (“How to provide to the preservation of the pus vaccine”)