About me

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I am Italian, graduated in Humanities and study alleged religious prodigies with a critical historical approach.

​I lectured on the theme "The hidden roots of Medjugorje", at the International Conference “Manipulation, Abuse and Maltreatment in Groups", organized by ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) [Trieste, 2013].

I am the author of the book La verità su Medjugorje, published by Lindau in 2018.

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​​I have been discussed in:​

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• Marijana Belaj (University of Zagreb), Milijuni na putu. Antropologija hodočašća i sveto tlo Međugorja, Jesenski i Turk, 2012, pp. 84, 90-91, 172, 195.

 -----, «A Place Where God Has Touched the Land in a Special Way»: Medjugorje as an International and Intercultural Space, in "Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom" [State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide], 32, 2,  2014, p. 181.

• Elke Pahud de Mortanges (University of Freiburg), "Wie halten Sie es mit Privatoffenbarungen?“, in H. Wolf (ed.), "Wahre“ und „falsche“ Heiligkeit, Oldenbourg Verlag 2013, p. 129.

• Manfred Hauke (Faculty of Theology of Lugano), Marco Corvaglia: La verità su Medjugorje. Il grande inganno, in "Rivista Teologica di Lugano, 34, 3, 2018, pp. 673-675.

-----, Die ersten "Erscheinungen" der "Gospa" in Medjugorje und ihr Ursprung Kurzer status quaestionis, in "Forum Katholische Theologie", 34, 4, 2018, pp. 264, 266, 268, 279, 287.

-----, Innere Widersprüche und Schönfärberei. Die vatikanischen Äußerungen vom 19. September 2024 über Medjugorje, in "Sedes Sapientiae Mariologisches Jahrbuch", 28, 2024, pp. 184-185.

• Francesco Ferrari (Universidad Católica de Colombia, Bogotá), Le "apparizioni" della Madonna a Medjugorje tra la dissoluzione della Jugoslavia e la guerra in Bosnia (1981-1995), in "Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni" - Sapienza University of Rome, n. 85/2, 2019, p. 799.

• Andrea Nicolotti (University of Turin), Cattolicesimo ed epidemie: teologia, storia e attualità, AperTO - Turin University Open Access Institutional Repository, 2020

• Joachim Bouflet (consultant for the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints), Impostures mystiques, Cerf, 2023, pp. 222, 227, 231, 232, 357, 360.​

• Ratko Perić (emeritus bishop of Mostar), Djevice premudra: O Međugorju iz ljubavi prema istini, Tonimir, 2024, pp. 46-47, 53, 62, 64, 81, 93, 135-136.

• Ksenija Borojevic (University of Massachusetts, Boston), El fenómeno de la Madonna de Medjugorje: peregrinaciones, turismo religioso y pandemia,  in O. Molina Palestina (ed.), Peregrinar desde casa, ANUIES, Ciudad de México 2025, p. 186.

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I have also been discussed in Vatican Radio (programming in Hungarian: Medjugorje – maszk nélkül, by Fr. Szabó Ferenc, 1 March 2012 [Audio and text of the transmission]), in the newspapers El Mundo (5 September 2010) and  The New York Times (27 August 2015).

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I prefaced the books:

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• Donal A. Foley, Comprendere Medjugorje, Eupress FTL [Faculty of Theology of Lugano], 2017.

• Giorgio Gagliardi, La Madonna negata, Vertigo, 2023.

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Received from Dr. Giorgio Gagliardi (Coordinator of Scientific Medjugorje Commission), 31 August 2009.

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