The only person with his name enrolled in the Cremona registry is to be the fifth of the eight sons of Andrea, carpenter, and Rosa Capelli, spinner and dresser, born in the parish of S. Pietro. The poor record records tell him that he was also a carpenter who married on December 22, 1894 Anna Alessandrina Massarini, born in 1863, from which on December 15, 1895, she had a son, Mario Cesare, who died in the same year. In the documents he signed up with only the name Romeo. The few violins with his labels make them think he might have built them in his own while he was perhaps an employee of the Officina Claudio Monteverdi.