Edoardo Persico (Naples, 8 February 1900 – Milan, 10 January 1936) was an Italian architecture and art critic, designer and essayist.
After contributing to magazines such as The Liberal Revolution and Il Baretti, in 1926 he moved to Turin, where he supported himself by working as a mechanic assembler for Fiat.
After a brief attempt to found his own publishing house, in 1929 Persico moved to Milan, where he worked at Pier Maria Bardi's magazine Belvedere.
Initially focused on Italian art, with particular attention to artists such as Giorgio Morandi, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana and Mario Sironi, the gallery quickly earned a solid reputation for introducing to the Italian art scene artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Hans Arp and Juan Gris.
His most important works were made in collaboration with artist Marcello Nizzoli, and include the Gold Medallion Room at the Aeronautics Exhibition (1934) and the Hall of Honour for the 1936 Milan Triennale, which was completed after his death.