Dante Della Terza (Italy, 5 May 1924[1] – 6 April 2021) was an Italian academic living and working in the United States.
He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, under the supervision of Luigi Russo, a major critic between the 1930s and the 1960s.
After his time at Harvard, he taught for a few years at the University of Naples "Federico II."
Della Terza was essentially a historicist, but his work often branches into different theoretical perspectives, often addressing the relationship between the text and the reader.
Besides literature, Della Terza also wrote about the diaspora of European intellectuals in the United States after World War II.