Maria Vittoria CURTOLO

Maria Vittoria Curtolo (Treviso, 1995). She gained her secondary school Diploma from Liceo Ginnasio Statale "A. Canova" in Treviso (2014), her Laurea (BA) from Università degli Studi di Udine (2017), and her Laurea Magistrale (MA) in Classics from the same University jointly with Università degli Studi di Trieste (2019). She also obtained the Diploma from the School for Advanced Studies (Scuola Superiore Universitaria "di Toppo Wassermann") of Università degli Studi di Udine. In autumnn 2023 she defended the PhD Dissertation (35° cycle), jointly conducted at Università di Pisa and Universität Hamburg (international Pegaso PhD scholarship from Tuscany Region). She was PhD associate candidate of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Universität Hamburg).

The topic of her BA Thesis was the lexicon employed by Pausanias in the attribution of works of art in the Periegesis (Books I, V, VI). In the MA Thesis she started approaching Platonic studies by analyzing the philological contribution of all Plato’s papyri, to draw an overall assessment. Thanks to a research scholarship from Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale (Università degli Studi di Udine) during a research period in Germany she examined autoptically the Platonic papyri preserved at Kölner Papyrussammlung and at Institut für Papyrologie of Universität Heidelberg. Her PhD Dissertation investigated the textual tradition of Plato’s Laches (papyri, indirect tradition, medieval and humanistic manuscripts, Latin translations, along with the first printed editions).

At Università Ca' Foscari Venezia she was Research Fellow within the PRIN 2022 project “INTEGRATION_INTEllectual miGRATION: circulation of philosophical books and ideas around the ancient Mediterranean through the evidence of Graeco-Roman papyri” (PNRR M4.C2.1.1., Project code 2022SW5X3C, CUP: H53D23007110006), financed by the European Union - NextGenerationEU. 

She was Visiting Scholar at the Institute für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie of Universität Hamburg (DAAD Research Grant - Short-Term Grant). 

At Stanford University from 22nd to 25th April 2024 she took part in the International Research Institute ‘Global Horizons for Digital and Public Humanities’ - “Cities and Water”, organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA, Stanford University), with the support of the Stanford Humanities Center. 

She gave papers at international (St Andrews [Classical Association Conferende 2025], Durham – London/The Egypt Exploration Society [online], Brno [online], Paestum, Szeged), University (Pisa, Hamburg [online]), and local (Treviso/Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica ‘Atene e Roma’) conferences and seminars.

She is full member of the International Plato Society (ISP), affiliated of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) and member of the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica - Treviso Delegation.

Her research interests are:

• Papyrology;
• Digital Humanities;
• Palaeography;
• Plato;
• Textual Criticism;
• Pausanias and History of Ancient Art.