No documented account of Piazzi's scientific education is available in any of the biographies of the astronomer, even in the oldest ones. Piazzi certainly did some studies in Turin, quite likely attending Giovan Battista Beccaria's lessons. In the years 1768-1770 he was resident at the Theatines' Home in S. Andrea della Valle, Rome, while studying Mathematics under Francesco Jacquier.
In July 1770, he took the chair of Mathematics at the University of Malta.
In December 1773, he moved to Ravenna as "prefetto degli studenti" and lecturer in Philosophy and Mathematics at the Collegio dei Nobili, where he stayed until the beginning of 1779. After a short period spent in Cremona and in Rome, in March 1781 Piazzi moved to Palermo as lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Palermo (at the time known as "Accademia de' Regj Studi").
Born in Casalbuttano, he was ordained priest in 1932 for the Diocese of Cremona. From 1942 to 1950 he was a pastor in the parish of Saint'Ilario in Cremona, where he was arrested for a brief time by the authorities of the Italian Social Republic for his support to the partisans.
In 1950 pope Pius XII named him bishop of Cremona and he 1953 he was appointed bishop of Bergamo. During his latter tenure, he decided to renovate the diocesan seminary and he started the fraternal reletionship between his diocese and the city of Cochabamba.
He died in Engelberg.
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