John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ He studied the civil law in the University of Padua, but, after a short stay there, chose music for his profession. Accordingly he put himself under the tuition of some of the ablest masters in Italy, and having attained to a considerable degree of proficiency in the science of practical composition, took a resolution to settle in England, and arrived there with Geminiani, who was also a Luccese, in the year 1714. ”
