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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The symposium is organised by Christopher Celenza and Denis Robichaud and will bring together some real giants in the field, culminating in a volume for the series. What makes it even more special for me is that it comes almost exactly ten years after I began my PhD research on Judah Abravanel. 2/3

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Absolutely thrilled to have been invited to contribute a paper on Leone Ebreo to the symposium for the Cambridge History of Platonism in the Modern Age: Platonism and the Italian Renaissance, which will take place in Rome at the Notre Dame University Rome campus this week (13-15 May). 1/3

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

FYI: the flyleaf has been used for a significant number of notes, not necessarily related to the codex itself (eg, a rent annotation). The (maybe) cryptographic note is upside down.

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Scholars working in #manuscriptstudies, I need some help with an annotation. Is the one faded a cryptographic? Any suggestions? The annotation is on the verso leaf of the last flyleaf of a mid-14th C codex (an exemplar of William of Ockham’s Expositio in libros Physicorum copied by an Italian hand)

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The Hebrew annotation appears on the last folio, close to a sort of index of a part of the codex. On the same folio there is another Hebrew annotation (an alphabet), which in my opinion was written by a different hand. The ms entered the Assisi library in/before 1381

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Thanks 🙏 The manuscript was copied in the late 13C century mainly by a scribe from northern Italy. It contains commentaries by Ibn Rushd on Aristotle, in the Latin translation by Michael Scot, and Aristotelian texts

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Thanks 🙏 I usually work only with printed Hebrew books, and this annotation proved too much of a puzzle

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I am working on a Medieval (late 13th C.) Latin translation of Ibn Rushd. I found this annotation in Hebrew on the last folium. Can someone help me with this? Might it be a Latin hand writing in Hebrew? Thanks 🙏

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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!

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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...

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Open Call for Papers 1/2026 | Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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!

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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!

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

#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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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!

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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 unive.zoom.us/j/85624349215 ID riunione: 856 2434 9215

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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)

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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.

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#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?

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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)

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Any help will be very much appreciated

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

It’s been a while but I need some help: can you read this ex libris? I have some difficulties and many doubts

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

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!

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Unexpected exhibition at the MET Museum on Manet and Degas, their friendship and rivalry. Surprised by their works reproducing and renewing Renaissance art

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

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

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

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?

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Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

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

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