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.

Editor in chief Alberto Asor Rosa Advisory Panel Federico Albano Leoni, Zygmunt Baranski, Stefano Carrai, Tullio De Mauro, Valeria Della Valle, Paolo Di Giovine, David Forgacs, Stefano Gensini, Guglielmo Gorni (†), Giorgio Inglese, Sabine E. Koesters Gensini, Claudia Micocci, Elisabetta Mondello, Matteo Motolese, Gilles Pécout, Maria Emanuela Piemontese, Luca Serianni, Giovanni Solimine, Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Jean-Charles Vegliante, Ugo Vignuzzi, Marina Zancan Editorial Committee Sonia Gentili, Luca Marcozzi (senior editors); Raffaella Anconetani (editorial assistant), Francesca Andreotti, Elisa Brilli, Isabella Chiari, Sabina Ciminari, Fiammetta Cirilli, Laura Di Nicola, Giuseppe D’Ottavi, Paolo Falzone, Chiara Ferrara, Francesca Ferrucci, Luca Fiorentini, Federico Gagliardi, Alessandro Giarrettino, Giulio Goletti, Manuela Lo Prejato, Giorgio Nisini, Rita Palmai, Giulia Ponsiglione, Alessandra Rabitti, Omerita Ranalli, Caterina Romeo, Valentina Russi, Alessia Scacchi, Lucinda Spera, Monica Cristina Storini, Myriam Trevisan.