What is the ReceptioGate?

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ReceptioGate is the name given to a violent and coordinated defamation campaign launched against cultural heritage scholar Prof. Carla Rossi, after she publicly exposed the systematic dismemberment and sale of medieval manuscripts.
The attack was triggered by a discredited former manuscript cataloguer, Peter Kidd — a freelancer with no academic affiliation, whose blog has long served to mislead institutions, distort academic facts, and shield those who profit from biblioclasm. Kidd’s campaign sought to destroy Prof. Rossi’s academic credibility through false accusations, manipulated files, and defamatory narratives, all while protecting the market that thrives on tearing apart cultural heritage. His motives are clear — and so is his complicity. The campaign was silently supported by organisations that tolerate, and in some cases collaborate with, those who provide "expert opinions" on single leaves torn from stolen manuscripts — such as this example:
🔗 https://www.kollerauktionen.ch/fr/132590-0066-1174-MAESTRO-DELLE-EFFIGI-DOMENICAN-1174_70669.html
This site presents fully documented evidence about:

• The role of Peter Kidd in promoting the dismemberment of the De Roucy Hours
  🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/how-peter-kidd-promoted-the-destruction-of-the-de-roucy-hours-his-collaboration-with-manuscript-dis

• The fabrication of false accusations and manipulated files
  🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/peter-kidd-excised-leaves-and-the-illusion-of-provenance-research-2025-commentary

• The use of Kidd’s blog to slander Prof. Rossi and others
  🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/peter-kidd-a-documented-case-of-defamation-and-concealment-from-giovanni-mazzarelli-to-receptiog
  🔗 https://www.isfida.eu/post/peter-kidd-a-documented-case-of-defamation-and-concealment-from-giovanni-mazzarelli-to-receptiog

• The academic and legal response
  🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/the-receptiogate-affair-official-documents-academic-response-and-timeline-of-events
  🔗 https://www.isfida.eu/post/receptiogate-official-documents-publications-and-institutional-response
  🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/press-statements

🔍 Want to know more?
📚 Full timeline and legal documents:
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/timeline
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/faq
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/the-receptiogate-affair-truth-defamation-and-the-struggle-against-manuscript-dismemberment
🔗 https://www.alta-formazione.it/post/receptiogate-spiegato-diffamazione-documenti-accuse-infondate-e-risposta-accademica
🧑‍🎓 Background on the institutions involved:
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/actors-behind-the-defamation
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/actors-behind-the-defamation/peter-kidd-medieval-manuscripts-provenance
🔗 https://www.receptiogate.info/actors-behind-the-defamation/societ%C3%A0-internazionale-di-storia-della-miniatura
🔗 https://www.oprom.eu/post/the-responsibility-of-the-società-internazionale-di-storia-della-miniatura-in-the-receptiogate-affai
✉️ Rebuttals, testimonies, and international support:
🔗 https://oprom.substack.com/p/documented-timeline-of-the-defamation
🔗 https://oprom.substack.com/p/facing-disinformation-with-knowledge
🔗 https://oprom.substack.com/p/all-official-sources-on-receptiogate
 
This is not an academic controversy.
This is the exposure of a profitable network that trades in cultural destruction — and silences those who speak up.

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