Giovan Francesco Maia Materdona (4 September 1590 – c. 1650) was an Italian Baroque poet and Roman Catholic priest.

Giovan Francesco Maia Materdona was a native of Mesagne in the Terra di Otranto, near Brindisi.

[1] He attended the Accademia degli Oziosi in Naples through his acquaintance with its founder Giovanni Battista Manso.

In 1644, he published the Latin poem Ad beatissimam Matrem Virginem canticum rhythmicum.

He also published a devotional treatise, L'utile spavento del peccatore, overo la Penitenza sollecita (1649), which was highly successful, and went through several editions.