¹ It may save some reader's time to mention here two periodicals which might be thought to contain material on the Far East, but which actually appear not to. One, Oriente Moderno, consists mainly in brief notices concerning current affairs in the area extending from Morocco as far east as India and Pakistan. Central and Southeast Asia and the Far East are normally ignored. Orientalia, a learned journal published by the Vatican, confines itself to Near Eastern subjects, emphasizing Biblical studies.

Note remarks by G. Bertuccioli on some limitations of Italian sinology, including the absence of a learned journal for Far Eastern specialists (in his review of H. Franke, Sinologie, in Rivista degli Sludi Orientali, XXX [1955], 166–167, q.v. for more extensive bibliographies of Italian Far Eastern scholarship; cf. n. 2 below).

² More information on recent and current Italian sinology may be found in the brief accounts by Professors Tucci (FEQ, XII [1952], 107–109) and Petech (East and West, I [1950–51], 3–5). The continued flourishing of sinology in Rome is no doubt indicated by Professor Tucci's observation (Cina, I, p. 8) that the recently augmented library resources of the Istituto now permit research in Chinese sources of a greater scale than was hitherto possible.