[1] Luis Galiana y Cervera was born on 8 June 1740 in Ontinyent, Spain, the son of a prominent physician.

Among his unpublished works is a manuscript entitled Tratatus de inscripcionibus antiquis, duobus tomis comprehensus.

Cum variis scholiis, notis te animadvertionibus ad intelligenda multa venerandae Antiquitatis monumenta aptissimis (1758), archived at the University of Valencia, in which he brings together ancient inscriptions from all over Spain, together with passage from writers such as Escolano, Beuter, Morales, and Aldetre, in order to make an impassioned defense of classical antiquity.

Galiana y Cervera's most famous work is Rondalla de rondalles, published in 1796 in Valencia and republished several times.

Luis Galiana also maintained an abundant correspondence with Gregorio Mayans, with whom he exchanged his thoughts and his philosophical and linguistic doubts.