Roberto Diodato is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, and at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Interested in entangling the relationship between aesthetics and ontology, he has been studying the work of modern philosophers as well as some contemporary philosophical currents. His research also covered the relationship between aesthetics and cybertechnology. He is the author of several Italian books such Sub specie aeternitatis. Luoghi dell’ontologia spinoziana (Mimesis, Milan, 2012), Logos estetico (Morcelliana, Brescia, 2012), and Decostruzionismo (Editrice Bibliografica, Milan, 2016), and co-editor with A. Somani of the Italian book Estetica dei media e della comunicazione (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011). He is also the author of Aesthetics of the Virtual (State University of New York Press, Albany, 2012), The Sensible Invisible - Itineraries in Aesthetic Ontology (Mimesis International, 2016), and of Vermeer, Góngora, Spinoza: L'esthétique comme science intuitive (Éditions Mimésis, Paris, 2016).