He first apprenticed with
Andrea Voltolino. He then trained in Bologna under
Giovanni Maria Viani. He painted a series of canvases of classical stories for the Count Ercole Giusti. He painted some religious canvases for the Colombini in Bologna. He was described by
Carlo Ridolfi as having a ‘’very strange brain’’ with his paintings equally strange. The Fondazione Cariverona has a Perini canvas depicting
Tancredo al campo crociato piange la morte di Clorinda (Tancred in the Crusader camp mourns the death of Clorinda), a work once part of series of depictions of
Gerusalemma Liberata owned by Count Ercole Giusti in his Veronese palace. The series included a work each by Perini,
Carl Loth,
Antonio Bellucci,
Antonio Fumiani,
Gregorio Lazzarini, and
Simone Brentana. Also on display in the same hall were two mythological subjects by also by Loth, and five landscapes by Giovanni Ruggieri. ==References==