Born in
Pisa, Biondi was Secretary of the
Italian Liberal Party (PLI) from 1985 to 1986, and later its president. He was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from June 1968 to May 1972, and then from June 1983 to April 2006. He was a
Senator from April 2006 to April 2008. In 1993, together with the last PLI leader,
Raffaele Costa, Biondi founded the
Union of the Centre, a small faction of the new
Forza Italia (FI) party. He served as Minister of Justice for a period of eight months (having previously served also as Ecology Minister in the 1980s). Biondi was appointed president of Forza Italia's National Council in 2004. == Honour ==