I hope to get back to my normal blogging about manuscripts soon, but I have been dealing with (a) some (hardcopy) publications deadlines and (b) some more legal threats from Prof. Rossi's lawyers in Rome and London.
So, for those of you not on Twitter, I will simply bring you up to date with the news that there have been three publications in the past couple of days.
On Friday, the Nieuwscheckers.nl fact-checking site based at the University of Leiden published two new reports. They are in Dutch, so I use Google Translate for the following extracts.
The first, under the headline "RECEPTIOgate: Book about the persecution of the Jews also contains cut and paste work without a source", demonstrates and meticulously documents extensive copying, without adequate citation or use of quotation-marks, from the published and unpublished work of others.
The second, with the title "Rose is a rose is a rose: the art of Carla Rossi", shows how Rossi, working under her alter ego (or heteronym as she prefers to call him), "Lev Matvej Loewenthal", has copied paintings by the Italian artist Silvia Molinari, and offered them for sale. It is well worth visiting this page to see the animations that demonstrate the near-identical details of some Molinari and Rossi paintings.
Finally, the German-language Swiss newspaper "Blick" (which according to Wikipedia is "the most read paid newspaper in Switzerland") has today
published a brief report of the ReceptioGate affair:
Rossi has repeatedly tried to frame the scandal as the hateful ramblings of a single blogger (motivated either by envy for her greater accomplishments, or by involvement in the "illicit trafficking" in dismembered manuscripts, which she has heroically exposed) and has sent legal threats to at least five other people and organisations who have taken my side (none of which, so far, have been shown to have any merit). I am therefore grateful to the journalists -- especially Peter Burger, author of the Nieuwscheckers articles -- who have helped spread the story beyond the confines of Twitter.
[Update, 10pm, 19 Feb. 2023:]
Another article has been published, in the Tages-Anzeiger, but it is behind a paywall, requires registration, so for the time being you will need to register an account if you want to read it in full. (If you prefer not to register, I imagine it will be shared in full online fairly soon).
One of its main revelations for me is that it perhaps explains the timing of a series of messages I received on 17 January, stating that Rossi had killed herself. Similar messages were sent to the journalist who had given her a deadline the next day for responding to his questions. (Of course she had not killed herself, as we know because she has been changing the status of her UK-registered company, and sending legal threats, since then).
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ploetzlich-heisst-es-sie-sei-tot-880980438270
Here again are the links to the other three articles:
