Today, Maria’s paper “Fp2-maximal curves with many automorphisms are Galois-covered by the Hermitian curve” appeared in the journal Advances in Geometry, as a joint work with Daniele Bartoli and Fernando Torres. Here a open problem dated 2000 is analyzed. Namely, is it true that every Fp2-maximal curve (where p is a prime) is covered by the Hermitian curve? In this paper Maria, Daniele and Fernando show that this is the case provided that the curve has a sufficiently large automorphism group. Also, the first example of an Fp2-maximal curve which is not Galois-covered by the Hermitian curve is presented. A preprint is available here.