[1][2] The bishop served as a humble pastor though reluctant as he was to accept his episcopal appointment while even protesting against an idea to elevate him into the cardinalate.

His beatification took place on 19 September 2015 in San Miniato; Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the celebration on the behalf of Pope Francis.

He spent some time of his childhood in Tremoleto and studied under the Barnabites at the Collegio di San Sebastiano.

[3] He founded the Suore Domenicane dello Spirito Santo in 1872 while in San Miniato culminating the work that he began almost a decade prior.

Del Corona received his episcopal consecration on 3 January 1875 from Costantino Patrizi Naro in the Saint Apollinaris church.

[4] On 17 April 1899 he was in Rome when he had learned of the death of his fellow Dominican - and the Cardinal Archbishop of Florence - Agostino Bausa.

The bishop decided to retire from the position in 1906 due to his serious ill health (on 4 August 1906 he was diagnosed with liver disease and was near-blind as well) however Pope Pius X refused to remove him from his episcopal duties in full and instead appointed the Cardinal Archbishop of Pisa Pietro Maffi as the apostolic administrator on 14 September until he could find a replacement; he settled on the latter in 1907 which legitimized his resignation.

In 1910 the pope sent to him a personal and handwritten letter to him imparting to the archbishop his apostolic blessing due to it being the half-centennial of his ordination.

His remains were later transferred on 12 October 1925 and exhumed in 2001 for canonical inspection in the presence of Cardinal José Saraiva Martins as well as four bishops and fifteen priests.

The Cardinal Archbishop of Florence Ermenegildo Florit said that he was a "good and faithful disciple of Saint Dominic.

[3] The cause culminated on 9 October 2013 when Pope Francis declared him to have lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue and named him to be Venerable.