Rolando Vitali has studied philosophy at the Universities of Bologna and Berlin. His interests focus on German philosophy and culture, modern aesthetics and Frankfurt’s school, critical theory. He earned a doctorate degree at the Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena, in partnership with the University of Bologna, with a thesis entitled Macht und Form — Individualität und ästhetische Kathegorien in der Philosophie Nietzsches (Königshausen & Neumann, 2022). He has been fellow in residence at the Nietzsche-Kolleg in Weimar, research fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (IISF) in Naples and in 2022 visiting researcher at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Wien.