Here is the announcement made in the Journal Général de France 1787 about the discovery of the text in 'Girgente in Sicily.' The Journal de Paris reported that the discoverer was Vella.
Stephan Huller has had a life long interest in religion and spirituality 
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."