GIORNALE DANTESCO. - A journal of literary, critical, and bibliographical studies on the life, works, and times of Dante, founded by the publisher Leo S. Olschki in 1893 to replace L'Alighieri, Rivista di cose dantesche, published by him and edited by F. Pasqualigo (4 vols., Verona 1889-93). After Pasqualigo’s death and the failure of attempts to merge L'Alighieri with the Bullettino della Società dantesca italiana of Florence, Olschki began publication in the same city of the G. d., edited by G. L. Passerini, which lasted until 1915 (23 vols.).
Temporarily suspended in 1916, publication was resumed in 1921 under the editorship of L. Pietrobono, who was soon joined by Guido Vitaletti; the journal later (1928) received the subtitle Annuario dantesco.
Meanwhile, as early as 1917, Passerini had independently begun publication of another Dante journal of his own, entitled Il nuovo giornale dantesco, which in 1921 took the subtitle Rassegna critica e bibliografica della letteratura dantesca.