Orazio Grassi
Born in Savona in the last decade of the 1500s, a Jesuit of great fame was the antagonist of the great Galilei.
He was an Italian mathematician and architect, at the age of 18 he moved to Rome and entered the Jesuit novitiate.
He was a professor of mathematics but also dealt with optical astronomy and architecture. Its fame is linked to the dispute between Galileo Galilei on the nature of comets.
He returned to Savona at the conclusion of Galilei's trial and then was in Genoa to build the new college in Via balbi.
The scientific high school in Savona is dedicated to him.
Taken from "Filing cabinet of illustrious men in Savona" by Ernesto Baldassarre and Renato Bruno with the kind concession of the Savonese Society of Homeland History
