About Prof. Carla Rossi – Official Academic Profile
Carla Rossi is an art historian, Romance philologist and palaeographer. For more than thirty years, she has conducted research and advocacy in the field of medieval manuscript studies, with a particular focus on female scriptoria, illuminated codices, and the destruction of manuscripts for the art market.
She is the director of ISFiDa (Institut d'Estudis Filològics i Dantescos, based in Barcelona) and an honorary member of the Organisation pour la Protection des manuscrits Médiévaux (OProM), an international network promoting the documentation and digital reconstruction of dispersed medieval codices.
Carla Rossi has published extensively in Italian, French and English. Her work includes monographs, critical editions and scholarly essays. She has collaborated with universities, research centres and academic journals in Switzerland, France, Italy, the UK and beyond.
Recent publications include:
- Beyond the Margins. Female Illuminators in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Ethics International Press, 2025)
- The 1879 Theft of Royal MS 16 E VIII (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024)
Her research has helped draw renewed attention to the role of women in medieval book production and to the public responsibility of safeguarding the integrity of manuscript heritage.
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### Affiliations and academic recognition
- Scientific director of ISFiDa (Institut d'Estudis Filològics i Dantescos)
- Honorary member of OProM – Organisation pour la Protection des manuscrits Médiévaux
- Collaborations with academic institutions in Switzerland, France, and Italy
- Participation in EU-funded research on digital codicology and manuscript restitution
- Advisor and editor for journals and manuscript collections
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### External profiles
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ey6NWH4AAAAJ&hl=en)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6557-3684)
- [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/search?q=creators.orcid%3A0000-0001-6557-3684)
- [OProM Substack](https://opro-m.substack.com)
Jordi Puig has dedicated a book to the violent hate campaign orchestrated against her by art dealers she had reported, a campaign accompanied by serious death threats (circumstances that eventually led to two legal proceedings). The volume, entitled The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment, is available in Open Access at the following link: https://books.google.ch/books?id=ek5ZEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false.