He was the sixth son of Giovanni Battista and Maria Maddalena Bozzini (or Bosini), peasants[2][3] from whom he learned the rural agricultural traditions.

[4] Under the care of the archpriest of Albuzzano, Cesare Prelini (1843-1915), he prepared for his high school studies which he carried out at the Episcopal Seminary of Pavia.

16, October), appeared his contribution Il primo critico puro, in which there is already the intention of art and literature that he will exercise throughout his life, remaining faithful to Serra's teaching and to his ethical and cultural lesson.

On a mission to Albania, in the summer of 1919, he approached Alì Mohamed Murtezza Karageorgevič, Mutfì of Antivari: the exchange and common reading of religious books - the Gospel, the Koran - resulted in an episode that seemed to anticipate Pope John XXIII's ecumenism.

[18][19] In October 1919, discharged, he moved to Torre d'Isola,[20] coadjutor of his brother Giuseppe who was a pastor there, and taught literature in the Episcopal Seminary of Pavia.

[25] Correspondence continued and expanded, with Antonio Baldini,[26] Benedetto Croce,[27] Giuseppe De Robertis, Giacomo Debenedetti, Enrico Falqui, Tommaso Gallarati Scotti, Carlo Linati,[28][29][30] Marino Moretti.

[31][32] He also began an acquaintance with the vernacular poet Angelo Ferrari (1874-1971),[33] for whose second collection of poems Un bris ad ciel (1924) he collaborated in the choice of texts.

[34] In January 1924, following his intervention in the magazine La Festa concerning Ada Negri, which he had read since his years in the Seminary, he received a letter of thanks from her from which a relationship of friendship and correspondence began.

[45] In December 1932, he made his first pilgrimage to the Holy Land by sea (the travel diary was subsequently presented in installments - January, February 1933 - in the pages of Corriere della Sera); returning there in March 1937.

[51][52] From 1941 to 1945, the Borromeo was transformed into a military hospital: Angelini maintained contact with the students involved in the conflict, and in any case supervised the life of the college.

[54] From 1946 to 1955 he promoted the publication of the Saggi di umanismo cristiano, Quaderni dell'Almo Collegio Borromeo, signing himself as editorial secretary: a quarterly in which, together with the contributions of already known authors, wrote also young students and ex-students of the Borromeo itself, of the Collegio Ghislieri and of the Normale di Pisa - who would reach prominent places in the world of culture.

Assisi[58] was a favorite destination of the priest from Pavia, where he met fellow friends-coursesists Antonio Baldini, Piero Bargellini, Silvio D'Amico, Nazareno Fabbretti, Giovanni Papini, Daniel-Rops, Michele Saponaro, and others.

[75] Although on several occasions he had openly expressed the desire for his tomb located in the Holy Land,[76] he is buried in the cemetery of Torre d'Isola, next to his parents and brothers, as he requests in his will dated 10 September 1975.

He was the author of art prose,[80][81][82][83] also of an autobiographical nature, published in magazines and then collected and reworked[84] in volumes, among which we highlight: Commenti alle cose (1925), I doni del Signore (1933), Santi e poeti (e paesi) (1939), Carta, penna e calamaio (1944), Acquerelli (1948), I frammenti del Sabato (1952), Autunno (e altre stagioni) (1959), Viaggio in Pavia (1964), Questa mia Bassa (e altre terre) (1970), Il piacere della memoria (1977).

[85] A new poetic experience can be found from 1947 to 1948: he published twelve sonnets dedicated to the months - in installments - in the quarterly Saggi di umanismo cristiano, then revised and reunited in Autunno (e altre stagioni) (1959), finally resubmitted with variations in Il piacere della memoria (1977).

He was accompanied by a long dedication to religious literature;[95][96] among the volumes we note: Conversazioni sul Vangelo (1930), La vita di Gesù narrata ai ragazzi (1934), Il leggendario dei Santi (1935), Invito in Terrasanta (1937), Il Regno dei Cieli (1950), Parabole e fatti nel Vangelo (1955), Quattro Santi (e un libro) (1957), La madre del Signore (1958), Ritratto di Vescovo (Mons.