From the monograph of the painter: His peculiar and, in some respects, isolated production, constitutes in fact a particular expression of the Genoese figurative language of the early seventeenth century .... (Zanelli, p.7). The first biography of the Travi is by Soprani, and is defined by Zanelli a little "fictional": Scherzò the case in Antonio Travi with favor: open the good opportunity: he went according to talent: and made him become a talented painter. "Bernardo Strozzi, nicknamed the Capuchin, ... had the job of an apprentice for house service, and maxims for the grinding of colors. He had been looking for her for a long time; when buried in Antonio Travi [also called