Giorgio Pasquali (29 April 1885, Rome – 9 July 1952, Belluno) was an Italian classical scholar who made a fundamental contribution to the field of textual criticism.
He was interested both in the dynamics of textual transmission and literary criticism, and his mentor Nicola Festa encouraged him to work on late ancient or non-canonical authors such as Proclus, Tertullian, Eusebius and Gregory of Nyssa.
He worked both on Greek and Latin literatures, mainly from the Hellenistic and Roman age onwards: Horace, Callimachus, Theophrastus, Pausanias and above-mentioned authors Proclus, Tertullian, Eusebius and Gregory of Nyssa.
He critically edited Proclus' "Commentary on Plato's Cratylus", Theophrastus' "Characters" (Sansoni, 1919) and Gregory of Nyssa's "Letters" (E. J. Brill, 1951; GNO, vol.
Pasquali's greatest claim to fame is the book "Storia della tradizione e critica del testo" ("History of the tradition and textual criticism").
Eduard Schwartz's critical edition of Eusebius' "Church History" (GCS 2) played a major role in defining Pasquali's book.