IT Ferruccio Niccolini

31 August 1710 the Grand Duke Cosimo III with his Descripted and at the request of the Municipality of Volterra granted the Scolopi Fathers the management of public schools to the citizens. The following year, Pope Clement XI issued a seal with which he granted permission to the Scolopi to open a house in Volterra (in the current Saint Michele).

In 1712, a boarding school was also established for the children who came from abroad and the Municipality undertook to build the New Schools, the first stone of which was laid on 24 December 1764 with a solemn ceremony.

With Napoleon the teaching passed to the Municipality, which, in turn, entrusted it again to the Scolopi.

Among the teachers there are Eugenio Barsanti, physics teacher, and Giovanni Inghirami, geographer of Tuscany. Among the illustrious students there was Pius IX, immortalized in half-lenght portrait by Pompeo Falcone, and Marco Tabarrini di Pomarance, former Minister of Communications.

The Institute has graduated hundreds of people who have found employment in banks, especially in the Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra, financial companies, in private companies belonging to various economic sectors, in the technical offices of the municipalities of the area, in the Mountain Community of the Alta Val di Cecina, in the Local Health Unit while others have undertaken the freelance profession.

The headquarters of the Institute is still located in Guarnacci Street, number 6, next to the church of San Michele.