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Maria Vittoria Comacchi

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Intellectual historian | Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI, Universität Hamburg | early modern antiquarianism, Ottoman/European relations, Jewish history, manuscript studies

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It seems to have an uncommon feature: bifolium signatures in Hebrew, starting from the last quire. Is that correct what I read? Has someone ever found something similar in other Latin mss? Below some photos starting with the second last quire up to the first quire 2/2

10.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Friends and colleagues, I need some help from those of you working with Hebrew and/or Latin manuscripts. I’m working on a 15th-century Latin ms (a commentary on the Sentences by Petrus of Candia) in chancery hand, made from Italian paper 1/2

10.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks 🙏

21.05.2025 07:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks 🙏, I couldn’t really read the first word!

21.05.2025 07:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks! I’ll try to use the Wood’s lamp for the first word.

20.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Someone who can help me with this annotation? It opens a Medieval manuscript containing a Latin translation from Arabic (the marginalia was written when the binding was restored). Many thanks!

20.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
Open Call for Papers 1/2026 | Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas

Friends and colleagues in intellectual history and the history of philosophy: don’t miss the CFP for Lexicon 2026 (deadline for submissions Dec 30, 2025). The journal is peer-reviewed, diamond open access, and welcomes a broad range of topics across both fields! lexicon.cnr.it/ojs/index.ph...

09.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today! Join online the co-editors Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, and Davide Trentacoste who will discuss the Mediterranean as a space of connectivities and disconnections with Francesco Montuori and me!

11.04.2025 08:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Unfortunately, I couldn't fly to Boston this year, but don't miss the panels I organized with David M. Reher and Marcus Keller at #RenSa25! If you're curious to learn more about the Ottoman idea of Europe and the European historical imaginary of the Ottoman Empire, join our panels this Saturday!

20.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today on Zoom!

31.01.2025 12:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#skystorians it’s time for the last seminar of my 3-year Marie Curie project. This Friday, January 31, 3.30 PM (Italy time), join me, Edgar Omar Rodriguez Camarena, and Alberto Fabris, to discuss about New Spain and urban space in the 16C on Zoom ➡️
unive.zoom.us/j/88975868772

28.01.2025 22:15 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Actually, the only word I couldn’t (and still cannot) understand is the third since it’s a first name. The annotation reads: ex libris Pu?y Petit. But thanks for your help!

19.12.2024 00:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here’s: Argomento: Zoom meeting invitation - Riunione Zoom di Maria Vittoria COMACCHI - History and Epistemology of Geography - December 2024
Ora: 17 dic 2024 03:30 PM Roma

Entra nell'incontro in Zoom
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ID riunione: 856 2434 9215

17.12.2024 11:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today!

17.12.2024 08:38 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Unfortunately I cannot record the presentations, but I’ll ask the speakers if they will share their papers (or if they’re gonna publish them)

14.12.2024 12:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Next Tuesday Dec 17 at 3.30 PM (Italy time), you’re welcome to join me online on Zoom (or in Venice, if you’re there) to explore cosmographical developments and different concepts of space with Prof Tessicini and Prof Sgarbi. Event will be in English. Write me for the Zoom link.

14.12.2024 08:38 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

#skystorians any suggestions for someone who’s outside the French academy (I was a visiting student in Paris during my PhD and one of my advisors is French) and wants to apply for the MCF habilitation (section 17 Philosophy and 22 Modern History)? Is an interdisciplinary research profile well seen?

21.11.2024 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi #skystorians, happy to see new faces! I’m an intellectual historian and early modernist, working on trans-regional and cross-linguistic exchange in the Mediterranean region. Love to know more about your research! This is one of the authors I’m working on, G. Postel (also studying Judah Abarbanel)

09.11.2024 09:21 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
go.bsky.app/77uSk3m

08.11.2024 10:44 — 👍 962    🔁 357    💬 101    📌 26

Any help will be very much appreciated

24.02.2024 12:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s been a while but I need some help: can you read this ex libris? I have some difficulties and many doubts

24.02.2024 12:08 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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On my way to Frankfurt for the EMoDiR workshop “Rethinking religious otherness” where I’ll discuss Postel’s perception of Islam and Islamic radical sects. Happy to share my ideas with this cohort of scholars and listen to other research. You might join us on Zoom!

30.11.2023 07:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unexpected exhibition at the MET Museum on Manet and Degas, their friendship and rivalry. Surprised by their works reproducing and renewing Renaissance art

21.11.2023 23:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And if any of you is interested in the MSCA postdoctoral programme and want to apply in the next future, I’ll be more than happy to share with you my application and research experience 2/2

07.11.2023 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This week at IU we celebrate the work of international scholars, students, and professionals on campus during the International Education Week. I’m happy to be part of this celebration tomorrow at the J-1 Scholar Symposium. I’ll share my experience as a Marie Curie fellow in the US 1/2

07.11.2023 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pleased that the panels on transregional Renaissance(s) organized with Matt Hermane and the roundtable on Ottoman-European relationships organized with David the Reher have been accepted at the RSA in Chicago! And also the panel on Isaac Abarbanel I’ll chair (organized by Guido Bartolucci)! #RenSA24

01.11.2023 15:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, exactly as in your example. Thanks for answering my question and the suggestions!

22.10.2023 19:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean the dots/points on the consonant (the i’jam, right? Just realized it’s not correct to call them diacritics) when transcribing the words into Arabic. Should I add them to avoid any ambiguities?

22.10.2023 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First post here: I need help from colleagues expert in Arabic palaeography. What’s the best practise when transcribing a word with ta’ marbuta with no diacritic points? I usually transcribe words as I see in the manuscript (Latin, Ita, French), but not sure with Arabic consonants’ diacritic points

22.10.2023 18:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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