The church and the adjoining monastery were built in the 10th C., and the Benedictine, Humiliated and Teatini monks each successively occupied the monastery.

The interior presents a single nave with wooden statues and altars in the side niches, and it is richly decorated with frescoes. The presbytery houses a precious marble altar and semi-precious stones and the altarpiece "The Virgin Enthroned" by Giulio Campi. The splendid cloister arcade can be found adjacent to the church.