Born in Florence, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, in 1828 he was assigned responsibility for arranging the original core of the Protestant Cemetery (known today as the English Cemetery). In 1834 he married a daughter of Alessandro Manetti, director of the Waters and Roads Engineering Corps, whose service he entered. From 1841 to 1849 he held the position of "Royal Commissary for close vigilance on the building of the Railroad from Florence to Livorno" and, from 1850 to 1859, that of "Royal Commissary for the Railways" of Tuscany on behalf of the new "General Management of Water and Road Works and Civil Buildings of the State". He collaborated with his father-in-law on various projects, including that of draining the Maremma swamps. Thanks to his interest in the architecture of iron, he became the Tuscan architect who was the greatest user of the new architectural elements mass-produced by the Foundries of Follonica. The work deemed the manifesto of the new aesthetics was the church of San Leopoldo in Follonica, built in the years 1834-1840. Between 1835 and 1845 he constructed the cast-iron elements of the Customs Barrier at Livorno, a project of his father-in-law, Alessandro Manetti. He also engaged in designing bridges suspended from iron chains, such as the one over the Ombrone River dating from 1844, within the context of the Maremma land reclamation project. For the Foundry of Follonica, he designed and built the entrance gate in cast iron consisting of a monumental arch of triumph.