 From his first book Logic (1963a), which was translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French, Portuguese, and German, to his last publication, the article “The Causal Structure of the World” (2010), Salmon published fifteen authored and edited books, and over two hundred articles, reviews and comments of other authors. All of his publications, written in a crystal clear style, are characterized by rigorous argumentation and original thought. Introductory books like Logic, Space, Time and Motion, and Foundations of Scientific Inference are masterpieces which have served as reference books for generations of students and researchers operating in various fields, while Statistical Explanation and Statistical Relevance, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, Explanation and Causality, and Reality and Rationality are unparalleled sources of inspiration for philosophers of science working on explanation, causality, and scientific rationality. An ardent admirer of Italian culture, in the 1990s Salmon enjoyed a fruitful cooperation with Dennis Looney, at the time a professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. They taught a few courses focused on the intersections between the Italian cultural tradition and the history of science, considering among others Dante, Leonardo, Galileo, Leopardi, Galvani, Fermi, Calvino, and Primo Levi. At the time of his sudden death Salmon was working on a book, co-authored by Looney, a draft of which, bearing the title “Italian Science and Letters: Draft”, is accessible as part of the Wesley C. Salmon Papers collection, Archives of Scientific Philosophy (Doc. 31735033465448, Box 26, Folder 1  – see Other Internet Resources).