  A collection of selected papers of Gino Fano, containing most of his research
papers in Italian, is now available on line at the site of Biblioteca Digitale
Italiana di Matematica. The address is: http://www.bdim.eu/ The realization of
this collection on line is part of a joint project of Unione Matematica
Italiana (UMI) and Societa' Italiana per la Matematica Applicata e Industriale
(SIMAI). The present submission to arXiv is the introduction to the collection
and an announcement of it as well.
