Giovanni Macchia (14 November 1912 – 30 September 2001) was an Italian literary critic and essayist.
Born in Trani, the son of a magistrate, Macchia moved with his family to Rome in 1923, where, in 1934, he graduated in letters and philosophy with a thesis on Charles Baudelaire as a critic, a topic which was later one of his main subject of studies.
He attended master classes at the Collège de France and at La Sorbonne.
[1] His essay about Marcel Proust, L'angelo della notte, got him a Bagutta Prize in 1979.
Other main subjects of his analysis include the European theatre, the French moralists, and the Age of Enlightenment.