When Domenico Lavorata was born in 1737, in Piane Crati, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, his father, Tommaso Lavorata, was 30 and his mother, Barbara Sisca, was 30. He had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Isabella Le Piane. He died on 29 May 1817, in his hometown, at the age of 80.