PRESENTATION

«Siculorum Gymnasium» is a journal originally created by the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Catania which has been regularly issued since 1948. Now, after a few years’ break, it has resumed publication in this new online version. Its aim is to revive and update a scholarly publishing tradition which has, over many decades, brought together scientific contributions from distinguished Italian and foreign scholars, offering a well recognised point of reference in the Humanities.
This new version of the journal intends to maintain a high scientific profile and to bear witness to the manifest complexity and unarguable strength of research in the humanities at such an uneasy juncture for those who, with great competence and admirable dedication, are involved in these areas of knowledge.
The new editorial format has been organised by a series of sections. The first is dedicated to a specific issue (Res), chosen year by year. This section will host contributions invited by means of “calls for papers” and approved by a “double-blind peer reviews”. A second section (Riletture) consists in a kind of large virtual library where digital reprints of sections / essays, already published in earlier issues of the journal, are made available; they may also have been published elsewhere but all will have offered a significant contribution to the journal’s annual topic. This will stimulate renewed debate on the relevance today of earlier views about the issue focused on (with the aim of enhancing the intergenerational reach of relevant research).
In the following ‘open’ section (Agorà), further space is given to the issue dealt with each year by extra, locally and regionally inflected, intellectual contributions to the debate effectively brought together by a team of brilliant DISUM’s students. Finally, the journal will provide accurate bibliographical resources (BiblioSicily) specialising on reviews of recently published and internationally distinguished contributions, particularly within the Humanities, about Sicily and Sicilian culture. The aim is to establish, in time, a reliable database for scholars variously investigating ‘Sicilian’ subjects and issues.