Michael Italicus or Italikos (Greek: 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.
[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.