[5] Nacque a Napoli nel 1884 da Gaetano, professore di diritto costituzionale, e Clementina Cavicchia.

Si laureò nel 1904 e nel 1907 ottenne il primo incarico universitario presso University of Camerino, per passare poi University of Perugia, cui seguirono Cagliari, Messina e Modena.

Nel 1925 fu tra i firmatari del Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectual di Benedetto Croce.

Thanks to his discovery on an Egyptian marketplace of a papyrus containing fragments of Institutes (Gaius), one of the parts lost during the recovery of the same work from a palimpsest codex found in 1817 in a library in Verona was filled in.

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