THE RENEWAL. - A biannual journal published in Milan from January 1907 to December 1909, with the subtitle Rivista critica di idee e di fatti. Its editorial board consisted of A. A. Alfieri, A. Casati and F. T. Gallarati-Scotti, all laymen.

The program, modernist in tone, was matched by historical and philosophical articles that weighed every idea solely on the contingent scale of the truth then held to be such, and not at all on the authority of the pronouncements of any Roman congregation. The editors of the journal, from the appearance of the first issue (29 April 1907), received a warning from the Congregation of the Index; on 5 November Cardinal Ferrari prohibited its reading in Milan, and on 23 December he launched a major excommunication against its editors and contributors. All these particular condemnations were shortly afterward automatically subsumed into the general condemnation of dogmatic modernism, proclaimed by the decree Lamentabili (3 July 1907) and by the encyclical Pascendi (8 September 1907).

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BIBL.: G. Prezzolini, Cos'è il modernismo?, Milan 1908, p. 87 ff.; A. Della Torre, Il cristianesimo in Italia. Dai filosofisti ai modernisti, Milan-Palermo 1913, p. 380 ff.; T. Gallanti-Scotti, Vita di A. Fagazzaro, Milan 1920, p. 473 ff.

Piero Chiminelli

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