Stefano Sauli was a Genoese notary who was active during the first half of the sixteenth century. He was born as Stefano Carrega and assumed the Sauli surname when his family was aggregated into the Sauli albergo in 1528.
The person named as a subprior is an assistant to a prior in a monastery or priory, holding the second-highest rank within that specific community. The term can also refer to the third-in-command in a larger abbey, under the abbot/abbess and the prior.