Seicento&Settecento. Rivista di letteratura italiana. 2009. 4

The yournal's title itself immediately defines a period that is conventionally considered to range from the end of the Christian res publica, with the establishment of the scientific community around Galileo's name, to the time of the French Revolution; moreover without excluding any possible overlapping induced by the importance of the subjects treated. Besides, it immediately sidesteps the usual opposition between these two centuries, the Seventeenth and Eighteenth ones; on the contrary, here for the first time, they are united in the frontispiece of a single yournal. The internal layout of every issue commences with studies of a theoretical nature, followed by specialized articles. Large space is also devoted to specific informative reviews and publishing wide-ranging critical works, reserved for detailed studies and to stimulate discussions.