Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina (1731, Revello – 5 December 1813, Paris) was an Italian historian whose unique contribution was to write a history of Italy from a “national” perspective, which significantly differed from other historians who mainly wrote from a “city state” or “localized” perspective during that time.

[2] Promoted to the professorship of humanity and rhetoric in the college of Turin, he published (1769–1770) his Delle revoluzioni d'Italia, the work on which his reputation is mainly founded.

Collegiate honors accompanied the issue of its successive volumes, which, however, at the same time multiplied his foes and stimulated their hatred.

His Delle revoluzioni della Germania was published at Florence in 1804, in which year he went to Paris as the imperial librarian, on the invitation of Napoleon.

At Paris he published in 1805 his Tableau de la Haute Italie, et des Alpes qui l'entourent.