Graduated in Law from the University of Naples Federico II and graduated from the same University for a Diplomatic and Consular career, he practiced law at the Supreme Court of Cassation, the Council of State, the Court of Auditors and the Sacra Romana Rota.

He was also a professor of law for ten years at the Higher Institute of Letters and Sciences of Santa Chiara and a member of the Superior Forensic Council.

A convinced anti-fascist, he was a member of the National Liberation Committee representing the Christian Democracy, he participated as a protagonist in the birth of the democratic system and was political secretary of the DC for southern Italy until the capture of Rome, the day in which he and Migliori (secretary for northern Italy) resigned to hand the party over to Alcide De Gasperi.

He was called to be part of the Badoglio II government as undersecretary; he was part of the National Council; he was elected with very large suffrage to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 and joined that Assembly together with his wife Maria De Unterrichter, sister of Guido De Unterrichter.

Among other things, he was the rapporteur for the law establishing the Fund for the South, as part of a continuous commitment to the southern areas.