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Bonaventura Cavalieri
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Born Francesco Cavalieri, in Milan, Cavalieri took the name Bonaventura when he entered the Jesuati (not Jesuit) order.
He received minor orders in and was transferred to Pisa the following year.
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Here he studied philosophy and theology and came in contact with Benedetto Castelli, who introduced him to the study of geometry. To this study the brilliant Cavalieri devoted the rest of his life. In the four years he spent in Pisa, Cavalieri became an accomplished mathematician and a loyal disciple of Galileo.
In Cavalieri was recalled to Milan, where he became a deacon to (and protégé of) Cardinal Federigo Borromeo. He lectured on theology for three years in Milan and then became prior of St. Peter in Lodi and, in , prior of the monastery of the Jesuati in Parma.
In , with the help of Galileo, he secured the chair of mathematics at the university of Bologna vacated by the death of the astronomer Giovanni Antoni