Was born towards 1489. His parents were Peregrino de Allegris
and Bernardina Ormani. At a young age he established contact
with the Mantuano environment and later became a painter of the Gonzaga chamber. In 1517 he worked on a Virgin for the Church of San Prospero of Albinea. Towards 1518 he travelled to Rome and later undertook the task of the decoration of Room of the Abbess of the Convent of San Paolo, in Parma.
In 1519 he married Geronima Merlini and two years later his first child, Pomponio, was born, who would follow in his father`s footsteps but never became more than a mediocre painter.
Between 1520 and 1523 he carried out work on the frescoes of the Church of Saint John the Evangelist in Parma. In 1522 he was commissioned to make the altarpiece of the Capilla Prateroni of the Church of San Prospero de Reggio and to decorate the cupula (painted between 1526 and 1530) and the apse of the Cathedral at Parma, although he died before completing this work.
During the last years of his life he received various commissions. From this period are “The Virgin of Saint Jerome” (1523) and “Virgin of the Escudilla” (1524).
He also made some paintings of a more profane kind, such as those of the series of the “Jupiter and Antiope”. He died on 5 March 1534 at his birthplace of Il Correggio, where he was buried at the Church of the Franciscans.
