Salvatore Maria di Blasi

Salvatore Maria Di Blasi (26 December 1719 – 28 April 1814) was an Italian Benedictine monk, scholar, and librarian.

In 1747, Salvatore founded a scholarly academy, furthered by Giuseppe Antonio de Requesens, Benedictine prior of San Carlo and bishop of Siracusa.

In 1778, he was called to the Abbey of the Santissima Trinità di Cava, near Salerno, to organize the monastery's important and ancient archive and library.

He also wrote Series Principum qui Langobardorum aetate Salerni imperarunt... a vulgari anno 840 ad annum 1077.

Di Blasi made two trips through Italy, the first in 1754, the second in 1778, where he met and later communicated by missive with intellectual throughout the Italian peninsula including Girolamo Tiraboschi, Paolo Maria Paciaudi, Jacopo Facciolati, Giovanni Battista Passeri, and Anton Francesco Gori.