About Prof. Carla Rossi – Official Academic Profile
Carla Rossi is an art historian, Romance philologist and palaeographer. For over thirty years, she has conducted research and advocacy in the field of medieval manuscript studies, with a particular focus on female scriptoria, illuminated manuscripts, and the destruction of manuscripts for the art market.
She is the director of ISFiDa (Institut d’Estudis Filològics Dantescs i Digitals Avançats), based in Barcelona and an honorary member of both the Centro Scaligero degli Studi Danteschi and the Organisation pour la Protection des manuscrits Médiévaux (OProM), an international network promoting the documentation and digital reconstruction of dispersed medieval codices.
Carla Rossi has published extensively in Italian, French and English. Her work includes monographs, critical editions and scholarly essays. She has collaborated with universities, research centres and academic journals in Switzerland, France, Italy, and the UK.
Recent publications include:
- Beyond the Margins. Female Illuminators in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Ethics International Press, 2025)
- The 1879 Theft of Royal MS 16 E VIII (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024)
Her research has helped draw renewed attention to the role of women in medieval book production and to the public responsibility of safeguarding the integrity of manuscript heritage.
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### Affiliations and academic recognition
- Scientific director of ISFiDa (Institut d’Estudis Filològics Dantescs i Digitals Avançats )
- Honorary member of OProM – Organisation pour la Protection des manuscrits Médiévaux
- Collaborations with academic institutions in Europe (Università del Salento, University of Barcelona, Centro Scaligero di Studi Danteschi and others)
- Participation in EU-funded research on digital codicology and manuscript restitution
- Advisor and editor for journals and manuscript collections (Imago Srl, Harvard Art Law Review, Scriptorium Foroiuliense)
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### External profiles
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ey6NWH4AAAAJ&hl=en)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6557-3684)
- [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/search?q=creators.orcid%3A0000-0001-6557-3684)
- [OProM Substack](https://opro-m.substack.com)
Jordi Puig has dedicated a book to the violent hate campaign orchestrated against her by art dealers she had reported, a campaign accompanied by serious death threats (circumstances that eventually led to two legal proceedings). The volume, entitled The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment, is available in Open Access at the following link: https://books.google.ch/books?id=ek5ZEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false.