This scientific journal was born in 2015 as part of a collaboration agreement between the Centre International de Phonétique Appliquée (CIPA) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). It’s a yearly scientific journal published jointly by both institutions. It intends to disseminate unpublished research on French language and Francophone cultures as well as on the other Romance languages. In addition to its issues of varied content, thematic numbers on specific cross-curricular subjects concerned with the linguistics of language and of speech, languages in contact, literary and cultural dimensions, philology, translation theory and lexicography are published.

The journal publishes studies on Italian language and literature with particular attention to the relations between Italian and Iberian cultures in a broad sense: contrastive linguistics, comparative literature, theory of translations, study of reception, interdisciplinary studies such as connections between literature and art, music and visual arts, etc. It is addressed to academic scholars and in particular to those interested in Italian. Due to the many universities involved, the journal maintains a close connection with the different initiatives organized in the field of Italian (conferences, lectures, events for the general public.)