ReceptioGate – Official Archive and Timeline of the Academic Defamation Campaign
This website provides access to the full documentation surrounding the so-called #ReceptioGate affair. It gathers press coverage, institutional responses, academic publications, and verifiable data related to the campaign against a European research centre working on manuscript preservation. All content is publicly available and curated by a documentation committee.
Here you’ll find accurate documentation of the smear campaign targeting scholarly research on manuscript dismemberment, along with legal statements, peer-reviewed publications, and a complete timeline of facts. All sources are verifiable. Nothing here is based on anonymous blogs or manipulated PDFs.
# Behind the Hashtag: #ReceptioGate
The term “ReceptioGate” has been widely used online since late 2022, often without context or verification. This website is a curated public archive of real facts, documents, publications, and academic responses related to the coordinated campaign targeting the RECEPTIO Research Centre and its partners.
What has been labelled a “scandal” is in fact the result of a smear campaign rooted in misinformation, disinformation, and commercial interests threatened by academic research into the dismemberment of medieval manuscripts.
## What this site provides
- 🧾 Verifiable documents and legal statements
- 📚 Academic publications (2022–2025) - Jordi Puig’s expanded book on #ReceptioGate is now officially filed with the BnF. No fake blogs—just documents, facts, and peer-reviewed content.
📚 https://nouveautes-editeurs.bnf.fr/accueil?id_declaration=10000001179172&titre_livre
- 📰 Public responses from institutions
- 🕵️♀️ Evidence of reputational attacks and cyber harassment
- 📅 A timeline of publicly available facts
- 🧠 Tools to understand how digital defamation operates
This is not an opinion site. It is a resource centre for truth, dedicated to transparency and the protection of scholarly integrity.
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### 📌 Key Links
- [AboutArt article, Dec 2022 (in Italian)](https://www.aboutartonline.com/manoscritti-medievali-europei-a-prezzi-stracciati-sul-web-un-appello-per-la-tutela-di-beni-culturali-tra-i-piu-preziosi/)
- [ReceptioGate timeline on Substack – OProM](https://oprom.substack.com/p/documented-timeline-of-the-defamation)
- [Threats and harassment PDF (2022–2023)](https://www.profcarlarossi.info/_files/ugd/494184_8582d827636f4514956f3e79677224fe.pdf)
- [Archived false obituary (Jan 2023)](https://web.archive.org/web/20230127205042/https://www.deinadieu.ch/todesanzeigen/carla-rossi/)
- [Jordi Puig, The ReceptioGate Affair : https://books.google.ch/books?id=ek5ZEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false
- [Academic volumes on dismembered manuscripts](https://www.cambridgescholars.com/t/series-books?seriesID=72)
Carla Rossi, Philologist and Manuscript Scholar: A Life Devoted to the Preservation of Medieval Cultural Heritage
Prof. Carla Rossi is an internationally recognised philologist and manuscript scholar, known for her work on medieval books, female illuminators, and the ethical reconstruction of dismembered codices. With a background in Romance philology and a career spanning over three decades, Rossi has published widely on Dante, manuscript culture, and the ideology behind biblioclasm.
She is the founder of the Institut d’Estudis Filològics i Dantescos (ISFiDa) and co-director of OProM (Organisation pour la Protection des Manuscrits Médiévaux), which coordinates European efforts to digitally reconstruct manuscripts dispersed by the antiquarian market.
Among her major contributions:
– the digital and philological reconstruction of the De Roucy Hours
– the book Beyond the Margins: Female Illuminators in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
– contributions on Dante’s Commedia from a performative-musicological perspective
She has also been a key figure in denouncing unethical manuscript dismemberment practices, particularly through the #ReceptioGate campaign, which raised international attention on the academic, legal, and cultural implications of manuscript trafficking.
Today, Prof. Rossi continues to lead research projects, teach, and publish. Her public dossier, curated through multiple institutional websites, aims to preserve not only endangered manuscripts—but also academic freedom itself.
📌 Discover more:
🔗 www.profcarlarossi.info
🔗 www.oprom.eu
🔗 www.isfida.eu
🔗 Official book page: The ReceptioGate Affair by Jordi Puig
https://www.oprom.eu/receptiogate-book-jordi-puig
📌 Key resources:
Book by Jordi Puig
Éditeur : Bibliothèque de l'OProM
130 pages ; relié
ISBN 978-2-488512-00-8
EAN 9782488512008
https://nouveautes-editeurs.bnf.fr/accueil?id_declaration=10000001179172&titre_livre=
- 🕰️ [Timeline of the ReceptioGate campaign](https://www.receptiogate.info/timeline)
- 📚 [Academic publications and responses](https://www.receptiogate.info/evidence)
- 📄 [Cambridge Scholars’ official book series](https://www.cambridgescholars.com/series/biblioclasm-and-digital-reconstructions)
ISFiDa – Academic blog with official posts
https://www.isfida.eu/blog
OProM – Institutional communications
https://www.oprom.eu/news
Alta Formazione – Articles on manuscript protection
https://www.alta-formazione.it/blog
Substack – Documentation archive
https://oprom.substack.com
Zenodo – ACMD: Archive of Dismembered Manuscripts
https://zenodo.org/record/10714613
Cambridge Scholars – Biblioclasm and Reconstruction Series
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9355-9
## Academic Publications (with DOI)
### 1. The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment
DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.15283264](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15283264)
### 2. Institutional Complicity in the So‑Called ReceptioGate Affair
DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.15371633](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15371633)
### 3. Excerpts from the forthcoming volume by Jordi Puig
DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.15277061](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15277061)
### 4. ReceptioGate: Academic Defamation and the Dismemberment of Manuscripts – Expanded Edition
DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.15668640](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.## Academic Publications (with DOI)