[1] Giorello graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1968 and in mathematics in 1971 at the University of Milan.

[3] He directed the "Scienza e idee" series by Raffaello Cortina Editore[6][better source needed] and collaborated on the cultural pages of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.

[2][7][8] In 2010, Giorello expressed his atheistic thought with work Senza Dio.

Del buon uso dell'ateismo,[9] but in the last years of his life he expressed an agnostic thought.

[citation needed] In March 2012 he was a speaker at the national congress of the Grand Orient of Italy in Rimini.