Born in Faenza (RA) in 1936, he entered in 1948 as an apprentice in the workshop of his uncle Riccardo Gatti from whom, after attending the T. Minardi drawing school, he learned all the secrets of making and running a business.

After twenty-five years, in 1972, when dI Gatti died, he succeeded him and became the owner of the Bottega, developing its activity in Italy and abroad.

In more than fifty years of activity he has created and collaborated on works that are now in such prestigious places as the Vatican and the Quirinale, as well as ceramics for major Italian companies.
In addition to the numerous offices he held in the field of handicraft and ceramics, such as Ente Ceramica and Consorzio Ceramisti di Faenza, Confartigianato of Ravenna, he was Councilor Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche di Faenza, and in 1988 he was awarded by the President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga the honor of Cavaliere dell’Ordine Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.
In 2007 the Faenza Administration awarded him the major honor “Faentino sotto la torre” for distinguishing himself for civic and professional merits.
He died in 2015, leaving the Bottega to his four children, Davide, Laura, Marco and Marta.