Italian Studies: Journals

Published in Milano starting with 1989, this journal remains committed to insights from literature that can reveal issues about society and the individual.

This journal seeks to promote the study of Italian literature in its cultural context, to foster scholarly excellence, and to select topics of interest to a large number of Italianists. Monographic in nature, the journal is receptive to a variety of topics, critical approaches, and theoretical perspectives.

Features philological and critical essays, reviews of works, and offers bibliographical information on Italian and foreign literary journals.

This journal, published by the Department of Italian at Rutgers University, focuses on Italian literature and culture, welcoming contributions on text, film, translations, and prose and poetry in Italian. Material can be in English or Italian.

Italianistica is a quarterly review of Italian literature founded by Renzo Negri and Felice Del Beccaro. It contains essays, notes, articles, encounters, university teaching of Italian, writers today, criticism and methodology as well as a yearly bibliographical account.

A premier journal in Italian studies, Lettere Italiane focuses on Italian literature, welcoming studies on Italian civilization as well. It seeks to include Italian in the tradition of comparative study and novels.

This journal was founded in Pisa in 1883 by Alessandro D'Ancona. Over the decades, scholars from universities in Genoa, Rome, and Florence contributed to the quality of the journal. It is comprised of essays, critical notes, and unpublished rare archival materials, as well as an up-to-date bibliography divided by centuries.

Published in Pisa, Italy, this journal aims to promote critical materials related to literary, linguistic, and philological research in Italian studies. The editors seeks to highlight the particular position of Italian literature within the Romance language field, as well as other geographical and linguistic connections.The editorial board is comprised of faculty members from prominent Italian universities.

Founded in 1920 by Michele Barbi, Studi Danteschi is the official journal of the Italian Dante Society, being known by its old name «Bullettino della Società Dantesca Italiana». Unlike the other journals devoted to Dante, Studi Danteschi remained faithful to Barbi's manifesto: welcoming any work so long it relies on establish facts and its inquiries attempt to reach a truth, as well as if articles engage with an in-depth study of the medieval culture to grasp Dante's thought and the culture he helped coalesce and interweaves various works to understand the historical context and meanings of the Divine Comedy in its entirety.

Issued in 1963, this journal seeks to serve as an authoritative encyclopedic source through the essays and studies of the most prominent philologists and critics on Boccaccio around the world as well as on fiction and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Scholars can read studies which renew our critical knowledge on Boccaccio by using new methodologies of interpreting manuscripts and the traditions which fostered Boccaccio's ideas. Also, editors put an emphasis on works that seek to integrate the verbal and figurative expressions in Boccaccio's work, and the generations of illustrators who contributed to various editions.

A peer-reviewed journal of Italian Studies, founded by M. Ricciardelli in 1967, Forum Italicum is intended as a meeting-place where scholars, critics, and teachers can present their views on the literature, language, and culture of Italy and other countries in relation to Italy.

This journal is an interdisciplinary forum for publications on Italian history, literature, philosophy, art history, music, and cinema as well as other fields in the Humanities. It features five rubrics: Articles, Notes on Dante, Reviews, Books of interest, and Announcements.

Founded in 1937 within the Society of Italian Studies in London, Italian Studies is a quarterly journal publishing interdisciplinary comparative articles, interviews, and reviews of books, as well as guest-edited Special Issues.

The official publication of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, this journal publishes works on all aspects of Italian literature, culture, cinema, linguistics, and language pedagogy. It also has space dedicated to translations of major Italian works.

Peer-reviewed and trilingual (Italian, English, and French), this international journal is published three times a year. Besides serving the needs of a variety of readers used to both print and digital platforms, RSI promotes the knowledge of Italian language and literature in the world and fosters a broad dialogue, encouraging any methodology or philosophical approach as well as articles on foreign authors who have had a significant impact on Italian culture and civilization.

This journal features articles of original thematic and systematic analysis and reviews seeking to emphasize the originality of the Italian culture. In 1974, this journal changed into a platform that projected the Italian presence in the world, by inviting representative scholars both international and Italian as well as interdisciplinary and across disciplines to contribute and tighten cultural and historical relations between Italy and other countries.

Publishes research on cultural aspects of Italy, including history, politics, culture, and the economic and social life of the country. Articles are peer-reviewed and the journal occasionally publishes special editions with specific themes.

Published Quarterly, this journal was founded in 1865 by economics professor Francesco Protonotari. It is thought to be the oldest journal in Europe and focuses on providing reinterpretations of sources of documents that attract the attention of the most circulated daily Italian newspapers.

This electronic journal, published bi-annually by the University of Milan, is primarily conceived for the promotion of teaching and learning Italian language and culture for an audience of foreigners, thus featuring in its pages materials by students and faculty members as well as international contributors.

Romanische Forschungen is among the oldest and most traditional scientific publications of the Romance languages. Featuring original works about a wide range of topics in Romanist linguistics and in particular French, Italian and Spanish literature, this journal is reviewed by an international scientific advisory board. All Romance literary languages, as well as the German and the English are accepted. Since its foundation, the Romanische Forschungen is considered the leading voice in literary journals of the Romance languages.

Founded in 1971 by Giovanni Necioni, this serves as the official journal of the Centro di Grammatica Italiana dell'Accademia della Crusca. Of all the other language journals, Studi di Grammatica Italiana has a particular specificity through its extraordinary opening to innovative theoretical and methodological aproaches. Academica della Crusca is renown for its lexicographical and philological traditions that expanded its work at the new directions published by the Italian Academy, to investigate not only words for their lyricism but also for their morphological and syntactic roles, speech structures and a variety of semantic and pragmatic texts. The journal features articles about prominent grammarians and it established itself as an indispensable reference for scholars and users of Italian grammar.

Founded in 1961 by Tristano Bolelli, Studi e Saggi Linguistici is a significant journal in linguistic studies, inviting collaborations from scholars working in the field of Indo-European Historical Linguistics and contemporary Theoretical Linguistics, as well as international contributors, with materials ranging on all topics, methodologies and paradigms in linguistics. Some recent studies featured typological linguistics and language acquisition, etymology and rare languages, lexicon, phonetics and neurolinguistics subjects.