Bonifacio was born in
Castellammare di Stabia, near
Naples. He was one of the youngest
full professors of
Roman Law at the
University of Cagliari,
Bari and
Naples, a position he held until February 1963, when he was elected by the
Italian Parliament as a judge of the
Italian Constitutional Court. He was then elected as the eighth President of such Court from February 1973 to October 1975. In 1964 Bonifacio was awarded Italy's highest honor: the Republic's
Grand Cross Knighthood (Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica). In 1975, Bonifacio was elected to the
Italian Senate, and served as Minister of Justice from February 1976 until March 1979. Bonifacio presided over two Senate commissions which considered and promoted
constitutional amendments. From 1987, he began to teach Constitutional Justice at the
Sapienza University of Rome. He died in 1989 in his home in Rome, due to a tumor. ==References==