RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI ED AUSILIARIE. - Founded in Rome by Prof. G. Toniolo (v.) through the patronage of Leone XIII, as a preparation, on the rigorous level of scientific inquiry, for the renewal of society in a Christian sense.
Toniolo was not new to such a project: there survives a programme by him for a journal entitled L'avvenire della civiltà. Periodico di scienze sociali ed affini (Rome, 1891), which was likewise to have appeared in Rome, as the organ of the Catholic Union for Social Sciences, under the auspices of the Circolo dell'Immacolata. Material and personal difficulties prevented the success of the initiative in 1891, but its programme was taken up by the R. i. di s. s. ed a. of 1893. Toniolo first linked the journal to the Catholic Union for Social Studies, then to the General Scientific Society among the Catholics of Italy, and finally to the International Association for the Progress of Science among Catholics; these represented successive attempts to create the general staff for the social reconquest of society. Although these failed because they were premature, the periodical nevertheless enjoyed an honourable history and is still continued under the auspices of the Catholic University of Milan, to which Pio XI entrusted it in 1931. Co-director with Toniolo was Mons. Salvatore Talamo, who, after the latter's death in 1917, ensured its direction alone. The new Milanese series was subsequently directed by Profs. Albino Uggé, Amintore Fanfani, and Francesco Vito.