Marri attended the Scuola di Disegno in Faenza, under Giuseppe Zauli, alongside Tommaso Minardi and Michele Sangiorgi. He was then sponsored by the Faentine Congregazione della Carità, to travel to Rome to apprentice as an engraver. In 1818 Marri moved to Milan, where he worked with the engraver Giuseppe Longhi. In 1830 he returned to Faenza, to direct the Scuola del Disegno, and in 1849 he accepted a similar position in the city of Forlì.