Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haife shi a cikin dangin aristocratic a Martignano a Salento, sannan wani ɓangare na Masarautar Naples. Mahaifinsa shi ne Carlo Antonio Palmieri, 3rd Marquess na Martignano. Ya yi karatu a Lecce kafin ya koma Naples inda ya rungumi aikin soja a 1734. Ya tashi zuwa matsayi na Lieutenant Colonel. Ya yi yaƙi da Austrians a Messina a 1734 kuma a yakin Velletri
a shekara ta 1744. Duk da yake a Naples ya kuma yi nazarin falsafar da tattalin arziki a karkashin Antonio Genovesi, a cikin gida daya daga cikin manyan masu fassarar marubuta na Turai na Age of Enlightenment, yayin da yake koyon Latin, Faransanci da Jamusanci. A shekara ta 1752 an nada shi Laftanar Kanar. A shekara ta 1761 ya wallafa littafinsa mai suna "Critical Reflections on the Art of War", wanda ya samu karbuwa sosai. Sarki Frederick II na Prussia ya yaba wa littafin.