Mineralogist, palaeontologist and mining engineer. An archaeologist, he has dedicated fundamental pages to the Neolithic period in Alba.

A high school teacher who teaches, first and foremost, antifascism. A fine man of letters, author of one of the most beautiful stories set in Piedmont.

A colonel in the Savoy army, from Monforte d’Alba in the Crimea. A benefactor of his land. Nowadays, he lives again in a museum dedicated to him.