He trained in engraving with his uncle Domenico Maria Canuti.
His plates are chiefly etched and finished with the dry point.
He engraved eighteen plates from the designs of Titian, for a textbook of anatomy.
He completed prints depicting: The Baptism of Christ after Albani; St.
Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read, St.
Theresa with the Infant Jesus, and a Martyrdom of St.
Christiana after Canuti; a St.
John preaching after Ludovico Carracci; Lot and his Daughters after Annibale Carracci; The Assumption fresco at the Cupola of the Duomo of Parma (1697); after Corregio