Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Ettore Baranzini a ranar 22 ga Satumba 1881 a Angera, Italiya. Ya yi karatu a Pontifical Lombard Seminary daga 1899 zuwa 1902. Ya sami digiri a fannin falsafa daga Kwalejin Pontifical na Saint Thomas Aquinas da kuma ilimin tauhidi da dokar canon a Jami'ar Pontifical Gregorian. An naɗa shi firist na Archdiocese na Milan a ranar 27 ga Maris 1904 kuma a watan Disamba ya fara aikin sakatare na shekaru goma sha biyar ga Alessandro Lualdi, sabon Archbishop na Palermo. A ranar 28 ga Yuli, 1920, an nada shi Rector na Pontifical Lombard Seminary, alma mater, wanda Paparoma Benedict XV ya dawo da shi a matsayin cibiyar mai zaman kanta. Ya halarci taron 1922
wanda ya zabi Paparoma Pius XI a matsayin mataimakin Lualdi.