The present volume collects the essays presented at the one-day seminar entitled "Kant's Rose" (La rosa di Kant). The seminar was organized in Palermo (April 28, 2000) by the International Study Center on Aesthetics on the anniversary of the death of the illustrious Italian scholar of aesthetics Ermanno Migliorini (1924-1999).

Luigi Russo's opening essay ("Migliorini: Aesthetics and the History of Aesthetics"), foregrounds the extraordinary importance of Migliorini's work for the study of aesthetics in the second half of the 20th century. Migliorini's most significant scholarly writings are then discussed in greater detail in the following series of essays: Giuseppe Sertoli, "Migliorini as Reader of Hutcheson and Hume"; Fernando Bollino, "Migliorini, the Estheticiens, and the 'System of the Arts'"; Pietro Montani, "Migliorini and Kant's Aesthetics"; Elio Franzini, "Migliorini and the Phenomenology of Criticism"; Enrico Crispolti, "Migliorini as Art Critic".
The Appendix, edited by Giuseppe Di Liberti, contains a reprint of a groundbreaking 1984 essay by Migliorini: Paragraph 51 of the "Critique of Judgement": Batteux and Kant.