1646 entered the University of Bologna where Francesco Natali was his tutor; 1649 studies of medicine at the schools of Bartolomeo Massari and of Andrea Mariani; 1653 graduation as doctor of medicine and philosophy; 1656 lecturer in logic; 1656-59 chair of theoretical medicine at the University of Pisa; 1659 extraordinary lecturer in theoretical medicine at Bologna; 1660 ordinary lecturer at the university in practical medicine; 1662 chair of medicine at the University of Messina; 1666 return to Bologna to lecture in practical medicine; 1691 chief physician to Pope Innocent XII in Rome.
