Carlo Salinari

Carlo Salinari (November 17, 1919 – May 25, 1977) was an Italian literary critic and academic.

A member of the Italian Communist Party, he was an active participant in the Patriotic Action Groups.

[2] Salinari taught at the universities of Palermo, Cagliari, Milan, Salerno and Rome where he chaired the Faculty of Letters in 1977.

In 1954 he founded with the magazine Il Contemporaneo with Antonello Trombadori which promoted Marxist aesthetics.

Among his many works are remembered Miti e coscienza del decadentismo italiano (Myths and consciousness of Italian decadentism, 1960), Storia popolare della letteratura italiana (Popular history of Italian literature, 1962), as well as his commentary on Boccaccio's Decameron (1963).