(Moncalvo, 15.08.1850 – Rome, 10.10.1924)

He graduated in law in Turin in 1870 and completed his training in law faculties in Germany and England.
In 1874, he started working in the Statistical Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade and Industry in Rome. In 1885, he was appointed professor of statistics in Padua and from 1891 to 1896 covered the role of rector.
In the University of Padua, he reorganised the historical archive, the solemn celebrations of 1892 for the teaching of Galilei, the symbolic ‘renewal’ of the university’s historic seal, prepared for the reorganisation of the administration and enhanced several scientific institutes, including physics, biology and clinical and the School of Engineering.

In 1896, he became professor of administrative law and science of administration and in the same year, he also started teaching theoretical statistics in the Business High School of Venice. Member of the Higher Council of Public Education from 1893, two years later he published a project of University reform with Ferdinando Martini. Among others things, it proposed to reduce the university centres of the Kingdom to eleven and to divide them into four principal faculties, including a legal-political one. In politics, he covered the roles of minister, senator and deputy.