The penname "Alberto Savinio" was an "Italianization" of Albert Savine, a minor French writer and translator of Oscar Wilde and Thomas De Quincey.
Mannequins were a frequent motif in the works many early 20th-century artists, notably the Metaphysical painters Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, and Carlo Carrà.
Alberto Ginastera | Alberto Gonzales | Alberto Giacometti | Alberto Fujimori | Alberto Lattuada | Alberto Salazar | Alberto Burri | Alberto Breccia | Alberto Zaccheroni | Alberto Santos-Dumont | Alberto Magnelli | Alberto Cavalcanti | Alberto Ascari | Nacci Alberto | Alberto Vargas | Alberto Savinio | Alberto Romulo | Alberto Pérez-Gómez | Alberto Bevilacqua | Alberto Acosta | Alberto | Jorge Alberto Rodriguez | Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón | Alberto Mancini | Alberto Hurtado University | Alberto Granado | Alberto Cortina | Alberto Bigon | Alberto Antonini | Luis Alberto Spinetta |
Was also the creator and curator of the series of books Einaudi Letteratura, which included personalities such as Ugo Mulas, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, George Bataille, Alberto Savinio, Claude Simon, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Man Ray, Fausto Melotti, Francesco Lo Savio, Giulio Paolini, Bruno Munari, Giuseppe Penone, Lucio Fontana, Luigi Veronesi, Alberto Burri, Luciano Fabro among others.