Lawyer Bruno Forte is specialised in civil, banking, administrative law and the protection of human rights. He is authorised to practice before all the Italian higher courts (Court of Cassation, Council of State, Constitutional Court) as well as to give assistance before the European Court of Human Rights; here, for over twenty years, he has been involved in the defence of Italian citizens and companies, unjustly violated by laws, administrative measures and judicial decisions adopted by Italy and which in our country would no longer have any chance of protection. In these respects, in Italy and in Strasbourg, he assists the parties of trials that have had an excessive duration and subjects whom have suffered damage to their assets (credits, illegitimate expropriation of properties and / or assets, legitimate expectations, loss of opportunities, etc.) in following the conflict between Italian law and the provisions of the Convention. He is a consultant for a trade union organisation of public employment of national relevance.

What brought me here?

The first answer is: the Lord.

My father started talking to me about Maria Valtorta but his “insistence” almost made me move away from the idea of ​​reading anything, perhaps more out of family spite than anything else. Then I picked up the first volume of the Gospel and started reading. And everything was immediately clear.

Always driven by great curiosity, I landed on the Foundation’s website, where I read a message that they were looking for some help in developing their website. I contacted the Foundation and we started working… and here I am.

My name is Carlo Ursillo, born in 1962 at Sora, a quaint town in the province of Frosinone, where I still reside. My training path is purely technical, I graduated in’ Industrial Technical Institute of Isola del Liri and later I took a course in computer science. I have multiple passions, the one for science and science fiction led me to look at the sky and its mechanisms with curiosity, prompting me to be interested in the various theories that have tried to define it. The passion for art led me to draw, paint and write poetry. I am married to Aurora and I have two children, Arianna and Alessandro.

As a boy I had various brief summer work experiences, while during the year I helped my father in his work, he was a framer. I had also a short teaching experience in a private school where I teache mathematics, electrical engineering and physics. In 1990 I joined the CEV team as a photo-compositor.

What brought me here?

In all my life, God has always been present, even if my religiosity was like that of many other boys, taken for granted and only notional. However, I remember that I had long discussions with the teacher of religion, I was interested in the figure of Jesus, that God made man who, however, always seemed to me too far from “man”. When I came to the CEV and began to read the writings of Maria Valtorta, I rediscovered that Jesus who, despite being God, for once, was really “man”. Furthermore, through the Valtortian events, I am convinced that science and faith are less distant than we think and they can collaborate by answering the first to the “how” and the second to the “why”. Furthermore, I was also captivated by the figure of Maria Valtorta, who in some way showed me the reverse path of Jesus: the one of the “human being” who rises to God, entrusting herself completely to Him.

We of the CEV have become, over time, collaborators of Emilio Pisani and Claudia Vecchiarelli in their Valtortian commitment, aware of the great importance of the writings. The involvement in the management of the archive, and in the establishment of the Foundation, made me a participant and aware of the Foundation’s great responsibility inherited from Maria Valtorta.