Francesco Strano

He was born in Aci-Catena near Catania in Sicily, he began by studying classics and humanities in Catania, where he was made a professor. He continued on to get a doctorate in Theology, and became a priest. In 1817, was made canon and superintendent of the Biblioteca Ventimigliana. By 1830, he had completed a 530-page index of all the works,^[1] a parallel for the works in this collection to the work Mare Magnum by Francesco Marucelli's produced for the Biblioteca Marucelliana of Florence.^[2]