Antonio Garzya (born 22 January 1927 in Brindisi, died 6 March 2012 in Telese Terme) was an Italian classical scholar, philologist, and university professor.
From 1965 until 1966 he was a school principal and then interrupted that activity from 1966 to 1968 to be Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Macerata, where, at the same time, he taught Latin literature.
[2] At the same time, from 1973 to 1983, he taught Philology of Medieval and Modern Greek and in 1976 was guest professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna.
Garzya's awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Toulouse in 1967, membership in the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples in 1970 (then chairman of that institution in 2002 and then chairman emeritus) and, in 1981, membership of the Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti della Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Naples and subsequent chairman of that institution from 1997 to 2000.
Garzya was primarily concerned with literary criticism of ancient, late antique and Byzantine Greek.
He edited Alcman' fragments and Theognis' elegies, and then Euripides' Heracleidae (1972), Andromache (1978) and Alcestis (1980; 2nd ed.
Starting from the end of the 1950s Garzya turned his attention to Greek literary works of Late Antiquity (Synesius, Procopius of Gaza) and Byzantine times (Theodore the Studite; Michael Psellos; Nikephoros Basilakes, c. 1115–shortly after 1182; Theodoros Prodromos; the cento "Christus patiens").
Regarding Byzantine texts, he researched extensively on both poetry and prose, producing the critical edition of Theodore the Studite's poems, of Nikephoros Basilakes' panegyric for Alexios Komnenos (1965: editio princeps) and then of his orations and epistles for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana (1984).
In the meantime, he edited a translation and commentary of the first five books of Cosmas Indicopleustes' "Christian Topography" (1992).
This volume and the edition of Psellus' admission of faith were reprinted without modifications in: Garzya, Antonio (1974).