Michael Italikos

Michael Italicus or Italikos was a Byzantine medical instructor at the Pantokrator hospital that had been established by Emperor John [II Komnenos] in 1136. Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates and Galen, and illustrated diseases through patient cases. His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox. Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis.
He wrote a monody on the death of Andronikos Komnenos (son of [Alexios I)|Andronikos, son of Alexios I]. He delivered basilikoi logoi to the emperors John II and Manuel I.