[1] The daughter of Giovanni Battista Salvioni, a statistics professor, and Rosa Schiratti, she was born in Bologna.
She then published two novels in the literary journal L'avvenire d'Italia: Prima che ritorni il sole (Before the Sun Returns) in 1922 and Quella che aspettavo sei tu (You Are What I Was Waiting for) in 1923.
[1] In 1927, after her father's death, she became librarian for the law school of the University of Bologna.
After World War II, she founded the women's journal Serena and served as its director.
Salvioni also contributed articles on art, literature, theatre and cinema to various periodicals.