Contardo Ferrini (5 April 1859 – 17 October 1902) was a noted Italian jurist and legal scholar.

[1] Rinaldo Ferrini, a professor of mathematics and science, taught his son at an early age.

During Ferrini's stay in Berlin, he wrote of his excitement at receiving the Sacrament of Penance for the first time in a foreign land.

Contardo attempted to discern his vocation whether as a secular priest, a member of a religious order, or as a married person.

An unconfirmed anecdote about Ferrini is that he was asked to attend a dinner party and, once there, found it tedious.

In autumn 1902, in order to rest, he went to his country home in the village of Suna, Novara, (now part of the commune of Verbania, Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola), on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

[4] In 1909 Pope Pius X authorized Cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari, the Archbishop of Milan, to open a process to promote Ferrini's canonization.

[5] Ferrini is the patron saint of schools, colleges, universities, professors and Homeric scholarship.