PhD in Philosophy. He graduated in Philosophy from Milan State University with all honors; he then developed a series of researches thanks to some scholarships from several Italian universities. In 1982 she went to the University of Gothinga on another scholarship and there she achieved a doctorate in Social and Political Sciences in 1984. Since October 1996 she has been Professor of Theory and Political Philosophy at the University of Lugano (Switzerland). Rigotti has published more than twenty-five books and nearly a hundred essays on the history of political and philosophical, ethical and rhetorical thought and imagery, as well as on philosophical multiculturalism. He collaborates with the RSI network and various Italian and Swiss magazines and newspapers.