Born in
Pojana Maggiore, Magarotto became deaf at age three because of a
meningitis. He was sent to a deaf school, the Tommaso
Pendola Institute in
Siena where he learned to speak and lipsread. When he moved to
Padua, he founded the Deaf Association of the Veneto Region. In the year of 1923, he obtained from the
Mussolini government a law that enabled the deaf and blind people to attend elementary schools. In 1932, on the day of
Saint Anthony of Padua, together with his deaf friends, he founded the Italian National Agency for the Deaf where he was president from 1932 to 1950. ==Honors==