REVIEW OF ITALIAN ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. - Founded in 1890 by the lawyer Serafino Giustiniani at the beginning of a new historical phase in relations between Church and State in Italy.
The legislation of the Risorgimento in ecclesiastical matters had by then completed its entire evolutionary cycle, and the slow movement was already beginning to take shape that was to lead to the new regulation later established by the Concordat of 1920. And even before it established new links between the canonical legal order and that of the State, when the new canon law and the reform of the Roman Curia had forced themselves upon the world's attention, the R. di d. e. i., through the work of Prof. Monsignor Cesare Badri, who directed it for many years together with the lawyer Michele Zacchi, introduced among its sections the one devoted to canon law jurisprudence and legislation and to commentary on them.
In 1908 the R. di d. e. i. assumed the title it still retains, Il diritto ecclesiastico, without changing its scientific and practical orientation, welcoming the voice of the most distinguished scholars, of whatever tendency, yet in substantial adherence and fidelity to Catholic thought. Today (1952), published by the house of A. Giuffrè in quarterly issues, it is directed by Profs. D'Avack, Petroncelli and Scavo Lombardo, with the cooperation of almost all those who cultivate the subject, ecclesiastical and lay, Italian and foreign.
Ermanno Graziani