Maria Vittoria Comacchi

Maria Vittoria Comacchi is a Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and holds a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at Indiana University Bloomington's Department of History. Her work focuses on Renaissance European and Mediterranean intellectual history, with expertise in Neoplatonism, Jewish-Christian relations, Ottoman cultural perception, and Arabic sources in Renaissance thought.

• PhD in History of Philosophy (2019), Ca' Foscari University (Honours)
• Supervised by Emanuela Scribano
• Research affiliations: Universität Hamburg, INALCO, CNRS

Her research analyzes cross-cultural interactions in Eurasia, particularly Guillaume Postel's engagement with Ottoman society and Arabic geography, and Yehudah Abarbanel's synthesis of Ficino and Jewish philosophy. Publications address topics like Renaissance cartography, mystical ecstasy, and historiographical debates about Ottoman philosophy.

Recent awards include the Max Weber Fellowship (2020-2021) and Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowship (2020). She has contributed to journals such as Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Journal of Early Modern History, and edited volumes on Mediterranean cultural exchange.