He was born in 1888 in the province of Salerno and graduated in law in 1909 at the University of Naples, beginning his career as a lawyer on 5 December of the same year. He became a prosecutor from 1911 to 1917, when he enrolled in the Bar.[1] In May 1915 he became assistant professor in Law and Criminal Procedure, then full professor at the universities of Camerino (1922), Cagliari (1926), Bari (1926), Bologna (1931), Naples (1935) and finally at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1938 to 1960.[2][3]
Due to his role in the regime, after the end of the war he was banned from teaching for seven years and from exercising his profession as a lawyer for four years.[15] In 1953 he was elected as an independent senator with the National Monarchist Party, and in November 1954 he passed to Achille Lauro's People's Monarchist Party, where he remained until 1958.[16][17][18] In 1964 he was appointed professor emeritus of the La Sapienza University of Rome. He was also eight times president of the Naples Bar, until 1980, as well as a member of the code reform commission and rapporteur for the Criminal Code project.[19] He died in Naples in 1985, at the age of 97.[20][21]
