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 the book La verità su Medjugorje  [The Truth About Medjugorje] (Lindau, Turin 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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