Alessandro Verri (9 November 1741 – 23 September 1816) was an Italian author.Born in Milan into an aristocratic family, as a young he participated in the Accademia dei Pugni, founded together his brother Pietro Verri and their friends Cesare Beccaria, Alfonso Longo, Pietro Secchi, Giambattista Biffi and Luigi Lambertenghi. Later he collaborated to the magazine Il Caffè. In this period he wrote the Saggio sulla Storia d'Italia ("Essay on Italian History", 1761-1766).