Overview
- He died in Naples overnight between January 3 and 4, with a funeral scheduled for January 5 at the Church of the Santissima Trinità in Naples at 10:30 a.m.
- He served on Italy’s Constitutional Court after a 1986 parliamentary election and was its president from 1992 to 1995.
- From 1998 to 2009 he presided over the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani.
- He chaired the National Bioethics Committee from 2006 to 2015, a role in which he was noted for balance and conciliation.
- A scholar of Roman law, he taught in Bari and Naples, joined the arbitration commission for the former Yugoslavia in 1993–1994, and served as publishing and broadcasting guarantor from 1996 to 1998.