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Alessandro Roccati
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was born in Paris on 1st August 1872.
An orpheline since his childhood, Roccati came to Turin at an uncle of him, don Alessandro Roccati, the parish priest of the Crocetta, and he graduated in Natural Sciences (1896).
He had attended for two years the courses at the Ecole des Mines in Paris. Returned to Turin, Roccati was a volunteer assistant at the chair of Mineralogy of the University.
On 1st January 1904 Roccati was appointed as assistant to the chair of Applied Geology of the Application School for Engineers. In 1907 Roccati got the qualification for university teaching in Petrography. Since 1909 he taught Applied Mineralogy at the Politecnico.
He became a municipal counsellor in Carmagnola since 1910 and was the mayor of Carmagnola from 1915 to 1920.
In addition, he was an active secretary of the Italian Glaciologic Commission and consultant of geognostic studies for hydroelectric plants of different public bodies, among which the Municipality of Turin, and important industrial companies.
The national Government called Roccati to become member of the National Council of Researches, in the Geodetic-Geophysic Committee.
In 1926 Roccati went to Brazil, bringing back to Italy a rich collection of mines, rocks and the whole set of publications of the School of Mines in Ouro Preto and the federal Geologic and Mineralogic Service. Roccati died in Carmagnola on 14th August 1928 after a very short disease.
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