STUDI RELIGIOSI. — A bimonthly journal, “critical and historical, promotive of religious culture in Italy.” Founded in Florence in 1901 by the then priest Salvatore Minocchi, it ceased publication in 1907.
The journal intended to publish archaeological, philological, historical, social, and artistic studies that would provide a general, as far as possible accurate and complete, picture of modern religious thought, with special attention to the traditions and history of Christianity and the Roman Church. In addition to scholarly articles, it contained a variety of brief documents and studies, a review of recent publications, and news. Besides the editor, its contributors included G. Bonaccorsi, E. Buonaiuti, C. De Sarlo, U. Fracasani, F. Mari, C. A. Nallino, p. G. Semeria, and N. Terzaghi. But from its very first issue it aroused strong controversy among many Catholic writers, who detected in various articles unmistakable tendencies toward rationalism and modernism (cf. A. De Santi, Il nuovo periodico fiorentino « S. R. », in Civ. Catt., 1901, I, pp. 450–64; and Il giudicio della Civ. Catt. intorno il nuovo periodico fiorentino « S. R. », ibid., 1901, II, pp. 195–205), and this became increasingly evident in the subsequent issues. Nor, as was stated, did it ever receive, even when requested, the approval of the ecclesiastical authorities (cf. Dichiarazioni, ibid., 1902, IV, p. 77).