After ending his studies with Jesuits, he attended the Royal Gimnasium getting the Teacher Training School diploma.
So he started his school career first at Erice, then at Castellammare del Golfo and later in Alcamo.
It is very important the correspondence between Mirabella and Giuseppe Pitrè, which contains information about the folkloristic material sent to him.
[3] Like Pietro Maria Rocca, he was also engaged with the works of cataloguing of the Civic Library and the notarial Archive.
After his death, they entitled him the homonymous Comprehensive School which is located in Viale Italia in Alcamo.