Diano-Teggiano, Diocese of

DIANO-TEGGIANO, DIOCESE of. — In the province of Salerno, with its see at Teggiano (an ancient Roman municipality).

It has an area of 100 sq. km and 90,000 inhabitants, of whom 89,070 are Catholics; it has 49 parishes and 180 churches served by 80 diocesan priests and 18 religious priests; it has a diocesan seminary (1948). It is a suffragan diocese of Salerno.

The diocese was established by Pius IX on 21 September 1850; yielding to the requests of the King of Naples, Ferdinando II, the Pope fixed the residence of the bishop of Capaccio at Diano, and the diocese took the name of Capaccio and Diano; shortly afterward, however, Capaccio was separated and Vallo (v.). In 1882 the diocese of Diano adopted the designation D.-T. The cathedral is the church of S. Maria Maggiore. Enrico Josi
DIARIO DI ROMA. – This D., commonly called Cracas, is the most important and characteristic Roman periodical of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was begun on 5 Aug. 1716, under Clement XI, by the Hungarian brothers Luca Antonio and Giovanni Cracas, to disseminate news of the Austro-Turkish War. When this ended in 1719, it continued, steadily gaining in importance. It ceased publication in 1894.

The newspaper, printed in Rome at the Cracas printing house near S. Marco al Corso, was of very small format, in 24mo, ranging from 12 to 34 pages; sometimes it included a supplement. The title page was variously illustrated. Its first title was Diario ordinario d'Ungheria; at first it gave only foreign military news; in 1718, some brief Roman news was added, and it became a twice-weekly. With no. 213 of 1718, the title became Diario ordinario and remained so through 1774. From 1721 the D. appeared three times a week; from 2 Sept. 1768 it was issued on Fridays with news from Italy and abroad, and on Saturdays with news from Rome. No. 8234, dated 30 Jan. 1771, mentions the death of Caterina Cracas, daughter of Luca Antonio, who for 40 years had devoted her life to the D., overseeing its compilation. Subsequently, the newspaper was directed by Abbate Vincenzo Giannini, Gaetano Cavalletti, Abbate Pietro Magnani, and Giovanni de Angelis. From 1775 there were two D., with a new consecutive numbering series: the Diario estero, of 24 pages, issued on Fridays, and the Diario ordinario, of 12 or more pages, issued on Saturdays.

The D. was suspended from 15 Dec. 1798 and replaced by the twice-weekly Gazzetta di Roma until 5 Oct. 1799, when it resumed publication. From 29 June 1808, the D. was called D. di R. and had no illustrations on the title page; it was distributed on Wednesdays and Saturdays. On 29 July 1809 the D. was again suspended, until 13 July 1814. Toward the end of that same year, the papal arms began to appear on the title page. In 1815, and until 1848, another sheet was added, entitled Notizie del giorno; it had originated to report news of the Austrian war against Murat and continued to appear every Thursday as a supplement to the D. In 1837 the D. completely changed its appearance: in a much larger format, in 4to, each issue consisted of 4 pages in 3 columns. It was published on Tuesdays and Saturdays. A winged figure appeared at the top of the title page. On 15 Jan. 1848 publication of the D. ceased, to be revived, in a completely transformed form, in the Gazzetta di Roma. In 1887 Costantino Maes restored the D.’s old format, giving rise to Cracas, 2ª serie, which lasted until 8 July 1893, and Cracas, 3ª serie, from 3 Sept. 1893 to 15 July 1894. These two last series, printed at the Tipografia della Pace of F. Cuggiani, are much less important.

DIARIO

ORDINARIO

(Num. 1.)

Dated 5 August
1716.

IN VIENNA, S. IN ROME
At the Printing House of Gian Fran-
celon Cracas, near S.
Marco al Corso.
With the permission of the Superiors.

DIARIO

ORDINARIO

Dated 30 August