Education
He received his early education at the Jesuit school for the nobility in Brescia. Then he entered the University of Padua in 1693 to study law, and earning a doctorate in law (Ll.d.) in 1696. Encouraged by Stefano degli Angeli to pursue mathematics, he studied the then latest methods of mathematical analysis.
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