Maria Vittoria Comacchi
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
Publications
33
Citations
7
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
12
Publishing since 2015
Maria Vittoria Comacchi studies the intellectual history of the Renaissance and early modern period, with a focus on how thinkers understood geography, space, and the wider world. Much of her recent work examines the sixteenth-century French scholar Guillaume Postel, including his engagement with Arabic geography and cartography, as well as questions in early modern Jewish and Ottoman philosophy. She works across languages and traditions, connecting European, Mediterranean, and Islamic sources.
Her publication activity has been steady over the past decade, averaging about three works per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- Representation of space(s): cosmography and world history in Guillaume Postel’s <i>De universitate liber</i> (1552)
Intellectual History Review · 2026
- Species of spaces
Intellectual History Review · 2026
- Thinking the Earth, Governing the Space: New Intellectual Perspectives on Early-Modern Geo-Political Approaches
ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) · 2026
- Esiste una filosofia ottomana? Una riflessione a partire da un recente dibattito storiografico
RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA · 2025
- Forme di mobilità nello spazio mediterraneo: nuove prospettive metodologiche (XV-XX secolo)
SOCIETÀ E STORIA · 2025
- Forms of mobility in the Mediterranean area: new methodological perspectives (15th-20th centuries)
Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) · 2025
- Arabic Geography and Sixteenth-Century Cartography: Guillaume Postel and the History of Abū al-Fidāʾ’s Manuscript
Brepols eBooks · 2024
- Antiquarianism or Taḥqīq? Guillaume Postel’s Reading of Abu’l-Fidā’s Taqwīm al-Buldān
Journal of Early Modern History · 2023
- Desarbres, Paul-Victor, Émilie Le Borgne, Frank Lestringant, and Tristan Vigliano, eds. Guillaume Postel (1510–1581). Écrits et influences
Renaissance and Reformation · 2023
- Questioning Traditions
2023
- Subjects Beyond Themselves
ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) · 2022
- Storie e modelli di idee e visioni. Intervista con Emanuela Scribano
ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) · 2022
- Postel, Guillaume
2022
- Abravanel, Leon
2022
- Burckhardt, Jacob
2022
- ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)×4
- Renaissance Quarterly×4
- RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA×3
- Intellectual History Review×2
- Brepols eBooks×1
This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.
Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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