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 Hidden Roots of Medjugorje" at the 2013 Conference of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) and am the author of two books on Medjugorje, the latest of which is entitled La verità su Medjugorje  (Lindau, 2018).

My other essays are collected in the Knowledge Commons repository.

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• El Mundo, 5 September 2010.

• Vatican Radio, 1 March 2012 (programming in Hungarian: Medjugorje – maszk nélkül, by Fr. Szabó Ferenc [Audio and text of the transmission]).

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

• 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.

• The New York Times, 27 August 2015.

• Manfred Hauke (Faculty of Theology of Lugano), Le prime “apparizioni” della “Gospa” a Medjugorje e la loro valutazione. Breve status quaestionis, in "Rivista Teologica di Lugano", XXIII, 2, 2018, pp. 435, 437, 439, 450, 459.

-----, Recensioni: Marco Corvaglia "La verità su Medjugorje. Il grande inganno" , in "Rivista Teologica di Lugano", XXIII, 3, 2018, pp. 673-675.

-----, 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.

• 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 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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