Maria Vittoria Tonietti

Biography

Formated in Semitic Philology ( cum laude thesis ), Sumerology, Assiriology and History of Religions in Italy and Abroad (University of Florence, Pontifical Biblical Institute and University of La Sapienza, Rome, École Pratique des Hautes Études Université Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne, Paris), at 22 he started teaching and research as an alternate assistant at the Faculty of Philology in Florence. In the academic year. 1978-79 is an exchange fellow at the Sorbonne. In 1981 he graduated in Music History. Since 1981 she is a researcher at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Florence. In the academic year. 1996/97 holds the Chair of Biblical Philology as a Supplement. From 2004 to 2007 she has been assigned to Assiriology at the University of Florence Since 2008 he has been the holder of Semitic Philology (monodocent from 2010). He has held several series of lessons for the Hebrew Doctorate and Semitic Languages ​​at the University of Paris VIII (Socrates project). With P. Fronzaroli, the organization of two international colloquia (Studies on the Language of Ebla, 1982, and Literature and Literary Language at Ebla, 1991). In 1998 he was invited with other European and American experts of III mill. to. C. to participate in the works of the Istrian Syrian Jezirah Field Workshop (Damascus and Tell Beydar [Syria], 6-16 May). Participate in Tell-Beydar's Euro-Syrian Mission. Since 1977 she regularly participates in national research led by Fr. Fronzaroli (CNR, ex 40%). Participate in MURST 1998 programs "Ebla stationery: linguistic understanding" (coordinator Prof. A. Archi "Ebla: administrative structures of a state of the 3rd millennium BC"); MURST 2000 "Trade Agreements in Ebla Stationery" (Coordinator P. Fronzaroli "Trade Shapes, Trade Shares and Exchange of Messengers to Ebla and Sumer [Second Half III Millennium BC]"); MURST 2002 "The letters of the officials in Ebla's stationery" (coordinator A. Archi "Production and management of valuable goods in the first urban societies." Vocabulary and administrative practices in Ebla and Sumer (2400-2000 BC)); Participate in the PRIN 2008 funded project "Divine Meals: Symbolism and Food Consumption in the Templar and Funeral Areas in Societies of the Near East" (University of Venice, Udine, Turin, Naples); to the project presented for the PRIN 2011-13 "Water Management in the Near East. Historical-cultural, Technological and Health Aspects", unfinished (University of Catania, Venice, Turin, Naples). Participate with L. Milano at the University of Appeal 2014-2015, funded by "Ca 'Foscari" University of Venice "Water landscapes in pre-glacial Syria-Mesopotamia" For his linguistic and assyriological research, focusing on Ebla's texts, he is invited to participate in national and international conferences and congresses (including Les Langues chamito-sémitiques, CNRS, Paris, Musiker und ihre Rolle bei der Verschriftlichung und Tradierung von literarischen Werken, Institut der Orientalistik, Wien; The naissance of the alphabet, École Biblique et Archéologique française de Jérusalem) and collective volumes (including: A. Lonnet-A.Mettouchi, Fait des Langues, L. Kogan, Festschrift Diakonoff, G. Rubio, Handbook of Ancient Mesopotamia, in press for W. De Gruyter); and to hold seminars and conferences (including: Groupe Linguistique d'Études Chamito-Sémitiques [GLECS], Paris, John Hopkins University, Baltimore). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of CLIEO (Historical and Theoretical Language Center: Italian, European Languages, Oriental Languages) from 2012 to 2015 Member of the "College of PhD in Linguistics" from 2005 to 2009 Member of the "Doctoral School of History Research" since 2010 Member of the editorial board of the journal "Quaderni of the Department of Linguistics" of the University of Florence Member of the editorial board of the journal "AsiAnA" of the University of Florence Member of the editorial and scientific committee of the series "Seminar Papers", and of the "Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna" series of the Department of Languages, Literature and Intercultural Studies, University of Florence.

Research Interest

Semitism-Languages ​​and Literature of Ethiopia