Institutional Complicity in the So-Called ReceptioGate Affair: 1. The Role of the Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura – Napoli

This article examines the passive complicity of the Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura – Napoli (International Society for the History of Miniature Painting) in the reputational attack against Prof. Carla Rossi, which unfolded between December 2022 and 2024. Based on archived emails, institutional communications, and a chronology of public actions, it documents how the Society's name and infrastructure were used—at times without authorisation, at times with institutional silence—to circulate defamatory content.The study also presents evidence of prior academic collaboration between RECEPTIO and several SISM members, including seminars co-organised with the University of Cassino. The contrast between this documented cooperation and the subsequent inaction of the Society raises broader ethical questions about academic responsibility and institutional accountability.