 From 1909 to 1916, he occupied the first chair of pediatrics at Pavia University.In 1928 he retired from his medical positions due to a neurological condition, probably encephalitis lethargica, which he may have contracted from a patient or an autopsy during an epidemic in 1921.He spent the last years of his life in ill-health with paralysis agitans, and died on 15 March 1937 in Rapallo.