Giovanni Pozzi (20 June 1923 – 20 July 2002) was a Swiss-Italian monk, essayist and literary critic. He was particularly interested in the messages in the words and images of the Baroque mystics.
He was born in Locarno to Ettore Pozzi and Maria Rosa Patocchi and was baptised 'Paolo'. He entered the Capuchin monastery in Faido aged eleven, followed by studies in Cesena, where he took vows under the name 'Giovanni' and where he was ordained priest in 1948. From 1948 to 1954 he continued his studies at the University of Freiburg under Gianfranco Contini and Giuseppe Billanovich. From 1960 to 1988 he taught Italian literature at that university.
In 1964 he published the monumental edition of 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna, published by Studio Bibliografico Antenore (then Editrice Antenore) in Padua. Perhaps Pozzi's most significant editorial undertaking is perhaps that linked to the publication of the richly annotated critical text of L'Adone by Giovan Battista Marino (1976, 2nd ed. 1988). He died in Lugano.