FRANCISCAN STUDIES. - National scientific journal of the Friars Minor of Italy.
It began publication on June 1, 1903 under the title La Verna. Rivista illustrata sanfrancescana, through the work of Fr. Teofilo Mengoni (v.) and with a programmatic letter by Giuseppe Toniolo, with its seat at Rocca S. Casciano (Forlì). In June 1911 the editorial direction was transferred to Sargiano (Arezzo), beginning in 1914 the 2nd series under the title S. F., già la Verna; the original heading was retained for the monthly Bollettino del Terz'ordine ed Antoniano.
Except for the period of the First World War, a period that was bridged with a "numero ponte" (1915-20), the journal came out regularly. In 1929 the 3rd series began, becoming a national journal under the care of the Friars Minor of Italy.
The journal publishes articles, texts and documents, reviews and news of the Italian Franciscan intellectual movement. Important are the various "single issues" that appeared on the centenaries of the donation of La Verna by Count Orlando of Chiusi (1913), of the Franciscan Third Order (1921), of the Stigmata (1924), of the death of St. Francis (1926), of St. Anthony (1931), of St. Bernardino of Siena (1945).
In 1949, alongside the journal, a series was begun under the title: Biblioteca di studi francescani, which collects monographs, texts and studies of broad scope. Three volumes have appeared: G. Melani, Tractatus de anima Ioannis Pecham, Florence 1949; I. Buratti, P. Agostino da Montefeltro, ibid. 1950; S. Girotto, Corrado di Sassonia predicatore e mariologo del sec. XIII, ibid. 1952. Gaudenio Melani
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