I started making lute type instruments around the second half of the 1980s.
In 1985 I graduated in classical guitar at the Conservatory in Padua. Then I studied lute for six years with M° Terrell Stone.
I began building instruments professionally in 1993.

As well as having had practical help from other instrument makers, my apprenticeship has largely consisted of making a close study of the historic instruments that I have been able to examine in the collections of various museums, such as: the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; the V&A Museum and the Royal College of Music in London; the Musée de la Musique in Paris; the Metropolitan Museum in New York; the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; the instrument collection in Edinburgh University; the Civico Museo Medievale and the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna .
I am particularly interested in doing further research on the lute making traditions that have made Padova famous: like those exemplified in the instruments made by M.Harton, V.Venere, G.Hieber, P.Railich and so on. 

To date (September 2005) I have made more than 100 instruments.

In the picture above: I am holding the 7 course lute by V.Venere (Padova 1592) at the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna.

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