 We do not know if Bocchi ever moved from Brescia; Carboni, albeit with great uncertainty, cited a stay at the court of Florence, a stay that seems unlikely given the absolute silence of the Atoldi who also cited the three works painted by Bocchi for that court.What is certain is that Bocchi had a quiet life, and his study was presented as a sought-after place for cheerful conversationalists, enlivened by the music of the zither of which he was a good player.Bocchi was a pupil of Everardi, a figurist, a painter of battles and bambocciate, who instructed him in this three genres; while the document Vinaccesi states that Bocchi was initially formed under Carlo Baciocchi and only later, when he became a friar, passed under Everardi