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Academic Integrity and Research Output

Between 2022 and 2024, defamatory and misleading information was circulated online about my academic work, following a formal complaint I submitted to the Italian Carabinieri's Cultural Heritage Protection Unit (TPC), concerning a group of biblioclast dealers engaged in the systematic dismantling of illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts for profit.

Despite persistent death threats directed at my family and me, the falsification of my Wikipedia entry (including false death notices), and an aggressive media campaign, my response has been rooted in research continuity, public transparency, and the submission of a legal expert report to the Swiss Federal Administrative Court.

Between 2024 and 2025, I published peer-reviewed books and articles that document the integrity, coherence, and continuity of my academic work. A public statement summarising this record is now available on Zenodo, with DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15248850

Research continues — as always, in transparency.

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By decision of the Swiss Federal Administrative Court of 7 January 2026, the proceedings relating to the volume The Book of Hours of Louis de Roucy have been definitively closed.

The Court annulled the revocation, ordered by the Swiss National Science Foundation, of the research grant associated with this book and established that there were no grounds to qualify the work as plagiarised nor to impose any sanctions.

The decision brings to an end a public narrative that had been constructed on the basis of materials and statements circulated online (notably on the blog of Peter Kidd, the main accuser on Twitter and other online platforms), which found no legal confirmation in the Court’s judgment. The Swiss National Science Foundation should have conducted its own independent investigations and should not have relied on accusations published on social media.

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Metadata – Academic Profile

Name: Prof. Carla Rossi
Discipline: Romance Philology, Medieval Art History
Institutional Affiliation: Institut d'Estudis Filològics i Dantescos
Public Academic Statement: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15248850
Official Response Published on Substack: oprom.substack.com

Keywords: Academic Integrity, Medieval Manuscripts, Biblioclasm, Digital Reconstruction, ReceptioGate

Links:
– https://isfida.academia.edu/CarlaRossi
– https://www.oprom.eu / https://www.receptio.eu
– https://www.youtube.com/@receptio

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