DIDASKALEION. - A journal founded in 1912 by the Salesian Paolo Ubaldi. The programme, as indicated by the subtitle Studi filosofici di letteratura cristiana antica, was, as explained in the presentation, to «promote the study of Christian literature in general, and in particular of Greek and Latin literature», exclusively from an aesthetic and philological perspective.
It was published by the Libreria (later Società) Editrice Internazionale in Turin. Suspended in 1917, it was resumed in a new series in 1923, with a somewhat expanded programme, as announced by the new subtitle Studi di letteratura e storia cristiana antica, always under Ubaldi’s direction, with the Salesians Sisto Colombo and Paolo Barale as editors until 1925 inclusive, then only Colombo. The new series also included bibliographic bulletins on Greek and Latin Christian literature and related subjects. In 1925 it became an affiliated and annexed organ of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the Catholic University, where Ubaldi had been transferred. It ceased publication at the end of 1931. The «D.» also had its own «Biblioteca», which collected six studies already published in the journal.