Luigi Carbonari (1880–1971) was an Italian politician from Trentino who was active in the agricultural cooperative movement.

Born in the village of Carbonare, Folgaria, in 1880, at the time part of the County of Tyrol, an estate of Austria-Hungary, Carbonari completed studies in law and political science, graduating from the Universities of Vienna in 1907 and Heidelberg in 1908.

[1] During his studies he was active in the movements for Italian language rights and autonomy for Trentino.

In 1906, along with Alcide De Gasperi, he was imprisoned for taking part in demonstrations demanding the Italian University of Trieste and in 1907 he was arrested for calling for the Italian annexation of Trentino.

[2] The Craftsman-Farmer Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Contadina Artigiana, abbreviated A.C.A.)