Luigi Salvatorelli

{{Short description|Italian politician (1886–1974)}}

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Luigi Salvatorelli (11 March 1886 – 3 November 1974) was an Italian historian and publicist, born in Marsciano, Province of Perugia, Italy and a political journalist in 1919 during Benito Mussolini's rise to power and was associated with the Turin-based liberal newspaper La Stampa in 1921. He stopped writing when Mussolini abolished the freedom of the press and Salvatorelli later became a member of the liberal socialist Action Party (Partito d'Azione, PdA). His work Storia d'Italia nel periodo fascista{{cite book |last1=Salvatorelli |first1=Luigi |last2=Mira |first2=Giovanni |title=Storia d'Italia nel periodo fascista |date=1956 |publisher=Einaudi |location=Torino |pages=1142}} (History of Italy in the Fascist Period, co-written with Giovanni Mira) is still to this day, with its 1,100 pages, one of the most detailed historiography monographs about the 1919–1945 period in Italy.