RASSEGNA NAZIONALE. - A cultural periodical, founded in Florence on 1 July 1879, with a definite orientation, as the expression of the conservative element, deemed best suited to combat the impiety of part of the press and to direct consciences toward the serious benefit of the fatherland.
At first monthly, it soon became bimonthly, later returning to monthly publication in its final years. An important organ of Italian culture in every field—literature, philosophy, and religion—it distinguished itself through essays and historical, artistic, and critical studies; but above all through its desire to promote and strengthen the Catholic and at the same time liberal tendencies and forces of Italy. Its programme was formulated by Augusto Conti, and among its contributors were some of the most authoritative figures, such as E. Pistelli, F. Tocco, G. Lasinio, F. Scerbo, G. Mazzoni, F. Ramorino, F. Crispolti, S. Rumor, S. Giovannozzi, etc. In the political sphere, it was especially concerned with supporting the participation of Catholics in the political life of the nation and with advocating the solution of the Roman Question (by means not always sound, as in the case of mons. Bonomelli [v.]); in the religious sphere, it sought to promote a certain harmony between science and faith, which, however, entailed a mobile and progressive Catholicism, such as that expressed, for example, by A. Fogazzaro in his novels.
In 1922 R. moved to Rome and gradually began to depart from its original programme in order to embrace new paths, which little by little made it a publication quite different from what it had formerly been. It ceased publication in 1944.