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an Italian historical painter, was born at Montefeltro, near Macerata, in 1637, and studied under Carlo Maratti and Cantarini. One of his best pictures is an altar-piece in the Church of St. Maria de Montesanto at Rome, representing a subject from the life of St. Francis. He was elected an academician at Rome in 1675, and died in 1682. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen., s.v.