Anyone who has read the texts “Ciminna Memorie e Documenti” from 1911 and “Canti e leggenda usi e costumi di Ciminna” from 1935, by the historian Vito Graziano, realizes the value of the work created by a medical anthropologist who dedicated a large part of his life to others and to the diffusion of a lively and animated cultural inspiration

Vito Graziano, was an indispensable figure for the culture of Ciminna, thanks to his work and his publications he transmitted and made us know the characteristics and traits of the society of the period as well as the history of our community.

We owe him a lot, especially for having laid the foundations for the creation of a new Library in Ciminna and for having recovered in the rooms of the former Santo Spirito Hospital all the volumes contained therein, placed carelessly on the floor, inventoried and some recovered. According to the inventory always made by Graziano, it was a matter of 2,300 volumes, of which however, little more than 800 could be recovered, the others being destroyed by humidity. The historian in his documents recounted: “and this cost no small effort and also a risk having to climb into the attic with a wooden ladder, to access it from a kind of door that was also small in size. And it was a great pity, in the end, to see in the middle of the Chapel a large pile of books blackened and gnawed by mice and irrecoverable”..