 According to Stefano Ticozzi, he was born in 1584, became the most valued assistant to Paggi, and died before his twenty-fifth birthday.A Florentine Giovan Batista Braccelli was a pupil and collaborator of Jacopo da Empoli.He published in 1624 in Livorno a "Bizzarie di varie figure", a book of etchings with a dedication to Don Pietro de' Medici (who died in 1604).