Circulation of an editorial model: the case-study of the short-lived \textit{Le Matematiche Pure ed Applicate} (Q1725680)

This paper takes as its subject the Italian journal `Le Matematiche Pure ed Applicate', founded by Cristoforo Alasia De Quesada, which ran from 1901 to 1903. This is classified as a so-called intermediate journal, which is taken here to mean one that was aimed at final-year high-school students and school teachers, with a particular view to preparing the former for professional or polytechnic entrance exams, and to keeping the latter up-to-date with current scientific debates. Moreover, the journal employed what is referred to here as the Brocard editorial model, characterised in particular by the extensive use of question-and-answer sections. The paper surveys the establishment and eventual termination of `Le Matematiche Pure ed Applicate', in comparison to other intermediate journals of the same period, before examining its editorial model more closely, and considering how extensive international collaboration in the journal helped to spread that model elsewhere. In this latter connection, `Le Matematiche Pure ed Applicate' is compared to certain Iberian journals.