[1][2] Born in Turin, the cousin of poet Vittorio Alfieri, he began his diplomatic career in 1816 in the State Secretary, then he was assigned to the embassy in Paris, where he father was the representative of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Later he worked in the embassies of The Hague and Berlin, and then he took part as assistant in the congresses of Aachen (1818), Troppau (1820) and Ljubljana (1821).

Two years later he returned to Turin, where he received the position of First Squire of the throne heir, Charles Albert.

In 1838 he was made member of the newly created Council of State and in 1842 of the Agrarian Association of Turin.

Together with Luigi Des Ambrois and Giacino Borelli, he was one of the authors of the Statuto Albertino, the first Italian constitution.