Nicola De Rosa is currently pursuing a PhD in Italian and Romance studies at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples. He was a post-graduate research fellow on topics of aesthetics and history of political thought at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples. He spent research visits at institutions such as Université Paris VIII and Université Paris III. He mainly deals with the dialectics between cultural and political processes of the Ancien Régime, with some forays into the contemporary era.