Maria Adriana Prolo ( Romagnano Sesia , May 1908 – Romagnano Sesia, September 1989 ) is an Italian historian.
Historian and collector, she founded the National Museum of Cinema in Turin in 1941 . His name is related to the origins of narrative cinema (it) .
Very young, she graduated in history and literature from the Facoltà di Magistero in Turin. Then she officiates at the Royal Library (Turin) (it) where she begins her exciting research.