Lorenzo De Donato works in Aesthetics at the universities of Milan-Bicocca and Cagliari (Italy). He also collaborates with the Unitre Institute in Milan, where he teaches Philosophy of Art. He studied philosophy, musicology, psychology, and pedagogy in Germany, Austria and Italy (at the universities and academies of Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Bologna and Salerno). He conducts research under the supervision of Anne Eustersculte (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany) and Johann Frederik Hartle (Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Wien, Austria) as a Visiting Scholar in Berlin (Freie Universitaet and Archiv der Akademie den Kuenste). He also was Visiting Scholar in USA (New York) and Spain (Pontevedra). His current research interests are: Cinematographical Aesthetics and Philosophy of Cinema, Adorno’s Aesthetics and Critical Theory, archive research on Adorno and Cinema. He obtained a Philosophy degree with honors from the State University of Milan, a Piano degree from the Giuseppe Martucci State Academy of Music in Salerno and a postgraduate diploma in Bologna. He has been a Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples. He has delivered lectures and participated in international conferences in Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, Serbia, Romania, Malta and India. He has published extensively (about forty publications, many others in preparation), with articles and essays appearing in books, academic journals and edited volumes in Italy, Belgium and Brazil. He has taught History and Aesthetics of Music at the Luigi Canepa State Academy of Music in Sassari. He is a member of the International Research Group in Ethics, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature at the Federal University of Rondonia (Brazil); a founding member of the International Research Group Mousikè, based in Paris (France); a member of both the Italian Society of Aesthetics and the Italian Philosophical Society; he is also secretary of the Academy of Human and Social Sciences in Rome. He was awarded with the 2022 Italian National Philosophy Prize Le figure del pensiero.