Born in Rome on August 2, 1854.
Died in Rome on June 8, 1922.
Graduated in medicine and surgery at the Sapienza University of Rome, he practiced the medical profession for a short time, dedicating himself instead to teaching as a teacher of natural history and history and geography in high schools. An active member of Roman Catholic associations such as the Roman Academy of the Immaculate Conception, the Circle of St. Peter and the primary Catholic artistic working society, he led the Society of Catholic Youth as president from 1881 to 1896, defending its autonomy with regard to all-encompassing demands of the Opera dei Congressi. In 1897 he was appointed general president of the Piana Federation, which coordinated the activities of Roman Catholic societies. From 1900 to 1904 he also led the diocesan committee. He was for a long time municipal and provincial councilor and councilor of the municipality of Rome, until 1907, when he abandoned the political scene and retired to private life, continuing only his activity as a versatile writer and brilliant lecturer.
As a member of the Roman Committee for the celebrations of the priestly jubilee of Pius X, comm. Presichetti delivered the speech for the inauguration of the *Pio X shelter, on 26 January 1908. Underlining the opportunity of this beginning precisely in the year of the papal jubilee that Pius X wanted to be remembered for the works of charity and charity, he also applauded in the name of the Romans to a work which answered a great need of those days.
Sources:
AGOSTINO VIAN, ad vocem, in the Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. IX, Vatican City, Organization for the Catholic Encyclopaedia and for the Catholic Book, 1952, cc. 1225-1226.
GIUSEPPE IGNESTI, ad vocem, in Historical dictionary of the Catholic movement in Italy, vol. III/2: The representative figures, Casale Monferrato, Marietti, 1984, pp. 647-649.
Guanellian sources:
«L'Osservatore Romano», 28 January 1908, p. 3.
Official inauguration of the Pius X Hospital, in «La Divina Provvidenza», 1908, pp. 18-23.
Photographs:
Historical dictionary of the Catholic movement in Italy, vol. III/2, fig. 10.