Born at Riesi, south Italy 18 September 1842. He was educated at Naples, where he graduated MD in 1866, and then travelled for three years visiting Vienna, Leipsic, Berlin, and London. Returning to Naples he taught surgery privately, and was in succession professor of surgical pathology at Padua 1881 and at Naples 1883, surgeon to the Pellegrini Hospital, Naples 1884, and director of the surgical clinic at the University aples 1903. He died 21 December 1913. Publications:- *Manuale di patologia chirurgica*. Napoli, 1887. 3 vols. *La nuova chirurgia del sistema nervosa centrale*. Napoli, 1893-4. 2 vols. *Sulla cura della tuberculosi chirurgica*. Roma, 1911.