He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1945 for the diocese of Fiesole. Graduated in literature from the University of Florence, he was national assistant to Catholic lay teachers and professor of ecclesiology and theology of culture at the Pontifical Lateran University.
Elected bishop of Cremona on 28 October 1978, he received episcopal consecration on 26 November by Cardinal Giovanni Colombo (concelebrated by his predecessor bishop Giuseppe Amari and the then general ecclesiastical assistant of the Italian Catholic Action Marco Cé).
In 1982, the 550th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin of the Sacred Fountain in Caravaggio, he celebrated a Marian year to renew that event of grace he wrote a supplication to the Virgin of the Sacred Fountain and wanted the building of the sanctuary church dedicated to Our Lady of the Fountain on African soil in Tabaka in Kenya.
On 26 May 1983 he resigned following his appointment as general ecclesiastical assistant of Azione Cattolica Italiana, which took place in December 1982.
Appointed bishop of Viterbo on 14 March 1987, he remained at the helm of the diocese until 30 June 1997, the day in which he resigned due to having reached the age limit and retired to private life in the archdiocese of Florence.
As bishop emeritus of Viterbo he was president of the Italian Federation of Spiritual Exercises and author of numerous writings and publications including, the latest, published posthumously in 2007, Thoughts as prayers.
He died on February 22, 2002. He rests in the cemetery of Viterbo.
The history of your Association
it is made up of many “saints next door” – many! –,
and it is a story that must continue:
holiness is a heritage to be guarded and a vocation to be welcomed.