Italian Caravaggist painter, active in northern Italy and Rome. He spent the first two decades of the seventeenth century in Rome where he trained and worked as an artist. In 1605 he was arrested and imprisoned after being discovered at the Monte di Brianza hostelry bearing an unlicensed sword; and in 1611 proceedings were brought against him for physically attacking the painter Silvio Oliviero. In 1618, still in Rome, he is recorded as a picture dealer. Around 1620 he returned to northern Italy where he pursued his career as a painter in Piedmont (Novara and Alessandria) and in Lombardy (in Mantua and Milan). Beside Caravaggio, he was also influenced by the Bolognese painters Annibale Carracci and Guido Reni. //