Skilled in foreign languages, he translated several works of English and German literature into Italian, particularly the plays of Schiller, Shakespeare's Othello and The Tempest, many works of Goethe (including Faust) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.
At 17 years old she married Andrea Maffei, but they separated by mutual consent on 15 June 1846.
He was prolific as an engraver for journals and books, for example, depicting illustrations of the tragedies of Schiller, translated by Andrea Maffei and published by Pirola.
In this period, his colleagues and friends include the writers and intellectuals Andrea Maffei, Edmondo De Amicis, and Enrico Nencioni.
Andrea Bocelli | Andrea Palladio | Andrea Mantegna | Andrea de Cesaris | Andrea Mitchell | Andrea Doria | Andrea Alciato | Maffei | Andrea Martin | Andrea Chénier | Andrea Zittel | Andrea Zanzotto | Andrea Camilleri | Andrea Olivero | Sant'Andrea | Dan Maffei | Andrea Pirlo | Andrea Moda S921 | Andrea Hewitt | Andrea del Sarto | Andrea Corr | Andrea Casiraghi | SS Andrea Doria | Pier Andrea Saccardo | Michele Maffei | Andrea Romano | Andrea McArdle | Andrea Maffei | Andrea Arnold | Andrea Angiolino |
There he got to know Giovanni Prati, Niccolò Tommaseo, Atto Vannucci, Pietro Fanfani, Andrea Maffei, Giuseppe Regaldi, Erminia, Arnaldo Fusinato, Francesco Dall'Ongaro, Terenzio Mamiani and other "illustri e buoni", as he later called them.
Its new library opened in November 2011, and was designed by Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei.