Italian bibliographic journals from the origins: views for a census

• Published in: Bibliothecae.it Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 8 - 55
• Main Author: Fiammetta Sabba
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bologna 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Bibliografia; Censimento dei periodici bibliografici; Giornale de’ letterati; Periodici bibliografici; Periodici culturali XVII-XVIII secolo
• ISSN: 2280-7934; 2283-9364
• DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/8936

The bibliographic periodical print was one of the main tools used by the intellectual community for conveying literary innovations since the end of the seventeenth century. This study outlines an overview of eighteenth-century literary journalism proposing the identification and analysis of the major publications of this kind, here illustrated through trends, main characters and places, as well as through the analysis of the composition of the published articles carried out by using bibliometric methods. By taking into account for this particular type of publications (from its French genesis to the developments and subsequent modifications occurred in the nineteenth century) some aspects relevant to the bibliographic cataloging activity and some others related to the scientific research in the historical-bibliographic-library field, this essay raise moreover a range of issues which could be dealt with through a survey based on a wider range of relevant criteria.