Born in Milan the son of Count Gabriele, juriconsult, president of the Milan Senate, General of the Duke of Savoy, he was the next to the last of six brothers, among them the famous Pietro and Alessandro, outstanding figures in the eighteenth-century cultural milieu of Milan and Europe as a whole. After studying theology in Parma, he devoted himself with little success to music and painting until, having inherited the estate of Biassono in 1787, he discovered a passion for agriculture. Starting from 1801 he published various articles on practical agriculture, written with scientific rigour and in a predominantly educational form, which won him the fame of highly esteemed agronomist. Among his works we may recall in particular the text Del modo di propagare, allevare e regolare i gelsi [On the manner of propagating, breeding and governing silkworms] (1801), the Saggio di agricoltura pratica sulla coltivazione delle viti [Essay in practical agriculture on the cultivation of grapevines] (1803) and the Saggi di agricoltura pratica [Essays in practical agriculture] that encountered a certain success, being published in no less than six editions, the last of them posthumous (1840). A member of the Academy of Georgofili, Carlo Verri distinguished himself in his later years in the political sphere as well, holding numerous important positions under the Napoleonic government, up to the tragic events that shook Milan in 1814. Retiring again to Biassono, he died in Verona, which he was visiting for therapy at the baths of Recoaro.