| Michael Italikos | |
| Birth Date: | c. 1090 |
| Death Place: | Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire |
| Nationality: | Byzantine Greek |
| Work Institutions: | Monastery School of Philippolis |
| Alma Mater: | University of Constantinople |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Theodore of Smyrna |
| Doctoral Students: | Theodoros Prodromos |
Michael Italicus or Italikos (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Μιχαήλ Ἰταλικός; fl. 1130–57) was a Byzantine medical instructor (didaskalos iatron) at the Pantokrator hospital that had been established by Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) in 1136.[1] Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases.[1] His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox.[1] Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis.[2]
He wrote a monody on the death of Andronikos, son of Alexios I. He delivered basilikoi logoi (encomia) to the emperors John II and Manuel I.