Luigi Salvatorelli (11 March 1886 – 3 November 1974) was an Italian historian and publicist, born inMarsciano,Province of Perugia,Italy and a political journalist in 1919 duringBenito Mussolini's rise to power and was associated with theTurin-based liberal newspaperLa Stampa in 1921. He stopped writing when Mussolini abolished the freedom of the press and Salvatorelli later became a member of theliberal socialistAction Party (Partito d'Azione, PdA). His workStoria d'Italia nel periodo fascista[1] (History of Italy in the Fascist Period, co-written with Giovanni Mira) is still to this day, with its 1,100 pages, one of the most detailed historiography monographs about the 1919–1945 period in Italy.
