Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi (born March 27, 1849, in Zenevredo; died November 19, 1910, Cardina, Como) was an Italian writer, politician and diplomat.

Born into an aristocratic Lombard family and educated in Milan and Pavia, Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi began his literary career at 16, when he and his friend Gigi Perelli co-authored two stories published together as Giannetto pregò un dì la mamma che il lasciasse andare alla scuola.

[2] In 1868 Dossi published the first of two autobiographical narratives, L'Altrieri: nero su bianco, in which, in a highly creative linguistic pastiche with its main roots in Lombard dialect, he evokes the golden age of childhood.

Like its predecessor it plays memory and storytelling against each other, but now episodes from the past are distinguished linguistically and set apart typographically from the main text; they would later be included as self-standing stories in Goccie d'inchiostro (1880).

1872 saw the publication of the elegy Elvira, likewise in a special edition, which included a drawing by the artist Tranquillo Cremona and musical notations by Edwart.