Italian violinist and composer. The preface to his posthumous Sonate a 1.2.3. per il violino, o cornetto, fagotto, chitarone, violoncino o simile altro istromento (Venice, 1641), which contains all of his extant works, provides the only known details of his life: a Brescian, he worked also in Rome, Venice, and Padua. The Brescian Cesario Gussago dedicated a sonata of 1608 to him.