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He was born in Sanremo on 18th April 1915 to Angela Varese and doctor Giovanni Battista, a sanitary officer for the Municipality of Sanremo. 

After attending high school in Genoa, he graduated in law in 1938.

Called up to arms, as an infantry officer he took part in the Second World War in the French and Sicilian campaigns: after 8 September he was captured by the Germans, transferred to the Marassi prison and interned in a concentration camp from which he managed to escape in a daring manner.

In 1946, the year in which he married Igia Natta, he became secretary of the Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno and after three years became its president, which he held until 1977.

In the 1950s, Mayor Bottini called him to act as secretary of the Francesco Corradi Institute and in 1964 he became its president. During his term of office, a building was built in Via Martiri della Libertà to house the nursery school and at the same time the new Municipal Library was set up in Via Carli.

Very attentive to the needs of primary education, he worked for the creation in the province of the FISM (Italian Federation of Nursery Schools), of which he became president: in this capacity, he stipulated an agreement with the municipality that provided public funding for non-state nursery schools, because of the important social function they perform, particularly in outlying and hilly areas.

A supporter of the values of culture and tradition, he was a founding member of the Institute of Ligurian Studies and President of the Famija Sanremasca from 1983 to 1989.

He died in Sanremo on 15 July 1999.

(source: Marco Mauro text)