Anton Maria Salvini FRS (12 February 1653 – 16 May 1729) was an Italian naturalist and classicist who lived in Tuscany.

He was not functioning well or interested in being a lawyer, but he gained among some the reputation of an excessively erudite polyglot and polymath, profusely quoting the ancient footnote to any new statement.

Italian writers of the 19th-century, like Foscolo and Settembrini were strongly repulsed by his urge to base knowledge on recondite and archaic sources.

[2] Francesco Redi is said to have commented that: And from a full glasses and overflowing / in such sweet demeanor my heart he touches / That to laugh again will not be enough / He, my Salvini, who has so much tongue in his mouth.

With the support of Cardinal Leopoldo de Medici, in 1677 he was appointed professor of Greek language at the Studio Fiorentino.