ECCLESIASTICAL JOURNAL OF ROME, THE. - A Roman religious periodical begun on July 2, 1785; printed by Giovanni Zempel at S. Lucia della Tinta, it came out on Saturdays in 4 pages. It had an annual index.

The G. E. set itself a universal character, examining all that related to the Church and ecclesiastical history, with news and critical expositions of all books published in Italy and abroad. A single subject was continued over several issues.

On Feb. 17, 1798, the G. E. was suspended because of political events; it revived for one more year in 1825. The title page, with symbolic figures, bore the wording: « Roma presso Vincenzo Poggioli ». It had continuous pagination, indexes and bibliographical bulletins; in its last period it appeared somewhat different from before. Its program, already set out in the preface, was directed against the anti-religious spirit of Voltaire and Rousseau, against Jansenism and the other heretical sects. News from Rome had first place, followed by Italian and foreign news.

The director of the G. E. was Fr. Gioacchino Ventura, procurator general of the Theatines.

The Supplemento al G. E. di R. completes the G. E., accompanying it from 1789 to 1798.

Bibliography

BIBL.: O. Vercillo, Periodici romani dal '700 al 1814, in L'Urbe, 12 (1949), pp. 19-28, cf. p. 22.

Oslavia Vercillo

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