The journal – founded by Alberto Asor Rosa and grown through the years thanks to the intellectual forces of Sapienza University of Rome – publishes well documented studies, conducted with patient work of scientific research within the “Dipartimento di Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche” (Department of documentary, linguistic-philological and geographical Sciences). From the origins to the present and towards the future, the extent of the chronological spectrum is equivalent to the variety of thematic and methodological interests: from literature sociology to mass communication, to comparative literatures.