[1] In Pavia, he wrote the Racconti storici danteschi, which he later published in Milan under the title Storie italiane del XII secolo narrate con la scorta della Divina Commedia.
Curti, trying to penetrate the Palace of Criminal Justice from which the Austrian military garrison had been driven out with the intention of disposing of the files of political trials against Italians, reached it in time to prevent all the prisoners from escaping.
He was, however, readmitted to the practice of law through the intercession of his father, a creditor of Count Pachta, Radetzky's right-hand man and general intendant of the Austro-Hungarian army.
[2] In the summer of 1858, Curti published La Madama di Celan which caused him much trouble with the Austrian police due to its political allusions.
[2] In the years that followed, from 1872 to 1874, he published Pompei e le sue rovine (Pompeii and its ruins) in three volumes, in which he also explained public and private life of the Romans; then a version of Publilius Syrus' Mimiambi, translated into Italian for the first time, and the Escursioni autunnali under the title Il Lago di Como e il Pian d'Erba.