Carlo Dionisotti

{{Short description|Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist}}

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Carlo Dionisotti ({{IPA|it|ˈkarlo di.oniˈzɔtti, - djo-}}; 9 June 1908 in Turin – 22 February 1998 in London)Conor Fahy, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-professor-carlo-dionisotti-1148568.html Obituary: Professor Carlo Dionisotti], The Independent, March 5, 1998. Accessed November 22, 2016 was an Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist. An alumnus of Turin University and a lifelong friend of Arnaldo Momigliano, he shortly lectured at Oxford before moving to Bedford College, London, where he held the post of Professor of Italian from 1949 to 1970.

His most significant work, Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana (1967), is a collection of essays contesting Francesco De Sanctis' unitary perspective on the development of Italian literature and pointing out instead how local influences shaped the production of major Italian authors.