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I am Italian and graduated in Humanities. I studied the religious phenomenon of Medjugorje for more than ten years and am the author of the book La verità su Medjugorje. Il grande inganno, published by Lindau in 2018 (old edition: 2007).

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I have been discussed in:

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  • El Mundo (ES), 5 September 2010

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

  • Marijana Belaj (University of Zagreb), Milijuni na putu. Antropologija hodočašća i sveto tlo Međugorja, Jesenski i Turk, 2012

  • Službeni vjesnik (BiH) (official organ of the Diocese of Mostar), No 1, 2012

  • Rino Cammilleri, Le lacrime di Maria, Mondadori, 2013

  • The New York Times, 27 August 2015

  • Donal A. Foley [with my preface], Comprendere Medjugorje. Visioni celesti o inganno religioso?, Cantagalli, 2017

  • Wired, 15 September 2018

  • Rivista Teologica di Lugano (four-monthly periodical of the Lugano Faculty of Theology), XXIII, No 3/2018

  • 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

  • Andrea Nicolotti (University of Turin), Cattolicesimo ed epidemie: teologia, storia e attualità, AperTO - Turin University Open Access Institutional Repository, 2020

  • Ratko Perić (emeritus bishop of Mostar), Žanić o Međugorju. Istinom po neistinama, Mostar, 2021

  • Joachim Bouflet (consultant for the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints), Impostures mystiques, Cerf, 2023

  • Ivan Turudić, Biskup Perić i međugorski fenomen, Crkva na kamenu, 2023.

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I lectured on the theme "The hidden roots of Medjugorje", in the Italian sessions of the International Conference “Manipulation, Abuse and Maltreatment in Groups", organized by ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) [Trieste, Italy, 2013].

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I have been a guest on various Rai and Mediaset TV and radio programs and advised some Italian TV stations on the realization of documentaries on Medjugorje (LA7 [2017], Italia 1 [2021]).

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Received from Dr. Giorgio Gagliardi (Coordinator of Scientific Medjugorje Commission), 31 August 2009.

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