The research examines the production of the Italian bibliographic periodical press during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, it aims at reconstructing its historical course through the collection, selection and analysis of the main testimonies; on the other hand, it investigates the different forms and physiognomies it assumed over time, as well as the ways in which the notitia librorum was delivered. This first plan of investigation was flanked by a second, through the elaboration of two descriptive models. The first is aimed at collecting the main generalities and formal evidence of a headline. The second, on the other hand, represents an attempt at perusal and in-depth analysis of the contributions offered by two periodical samples taken as reference models: La Galleria di Minerva, for the two-year period 1696-1697, and the Giornale della letteratura italiana (Mantua, 1793-1795). The intention is to reconstruct, also through a process of keyword formulation, the main themes and interests that emerged from the experiences mentioned. And to show, therefore, the representative and identifying value of the bibliographical periodical in relation to the scholarly context of reference, in its capacity as an information source within which the main scientific-cultural instances of the period are reflected.