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Filippo Caracciolo

Don Filippo Caracciolo, 8th Prince of Castagneto, 3rd Duke of Melito (4 March 1903 – 16 July 1965), was an Italian nobleman and politician. He was the first Italian President of FIA.[1]

Filippo Caracciolo in 1965

Biography

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Caracciolo was the 8th Prince of Castagneto, the 3rd Duke of Melito, and an hereditary Patrician of Naples from an old noble Neapolitan family dating back to the Kingdom of Naples. He graduated in political and commercial sciences and in 1934 assumed diplomatic positions in Turkey, Switzerland, and Strasbourg. He took part in the Italian resistance movement, and hosted exiled anti-fascists, including Ugo La Malfa.[2] During the Bari congress in 1944, he became the executive secretary of the National Liberation Committee, and later became the undersecretary of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Second Badoglio government.[3] During this time, he helped overcome objections for the Italian Communist Party to join the government.[4] Caracciolo later became secretary for the Action Party, and from 1949 to 1954 was general-secretary of the Council of Europe.[5] In 1963 Caracciolo was appointed President of FIA, a job he held until his death in 1965.[6]

Family

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Caracciolo married Margaret Clarke (1898–1955) of Peoria, Illinois and Rockford, Illinois,[7] the heiress of a well-known family of whiskey producers;[8] they had three children: Carlo Caracciolo (1925–2008) who went on to found the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso,[9] Marella Agnelli (1927–2019) who became an art collector, socialite, style icon, and wife of Fiat S.p.A. chairman Gianni Agnelli,[10] and Nicola Caracciolo (1931–2020), who went on to become a journalist.[11][12] He is claimed to have been the biological father of the Italian film producer Ettore Rosboch von Wolkenstein (b. 1945), son of Baroness Elisabeth Jaworski von Wolkenstein (1915–1959), who at the time of his birth had been a widow Nobile Ettore Bernardo Rosboch (1893–1944),[13] Italian Fascist Finance Undersecretary of State,[13][14] for too long for Ettore to have been his posthumous son. Ettore's only child Elisabetta Maria Rosboch von Wolkenstein married Prince Amedeo of Belgium,[15][16] Hereditary Archduke of Austria-Este and has three children.

References

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  1. ^ https://www.fia.com/profile/presidency/prince-filippo-caracciolo-di-castagneto
  2. ^ "Biografia Ugo La Malfa". Storia XXI secolo (in Italian). Archived from the original on 4 October 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  3. ^ Carnino, Andrea (25 February 2019). "Addio a Marella Agnelli". Croce Reale (in Italian). Archived from the original on 17 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  4. ^ Santarelli, Enzo (1999). Mezzogiorno, 1943–1944: uno sbandato nel regno del Sud. Milan: Feltrinelli. p. 79. ISBN 978-88-07-81528-7. Retrieved 17 February 2023 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Scali, Antonio (23 February 2019). "Marella Agnelli: chi era la vedova dell'Avvocato scomparsa a 92 anni". The Post Internazionale (in Italian). Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  6. ^ https://www.fia.com/profile/presidency/prince-filippo-caracciolo-di-castagneto
  7. ^ Turani, Giuseppe (25 January 2003). "L'Avvocato". La Repubblica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  8. ^ Marsala, Helga (23 February 2019). "Donna Marella Agnelli, l'ultimo cigno. Addio a una regina di stile". Artribune (in Italian). Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  9. ^ Povoledo, Elisabetta (17 December 2008). "C. Caracciolo, 83, a Publisher and La Repubblica Founder, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  10. ^ Wertheim, Bonnie (23 February 2019). "Marella Agnelli, Society's 'Last Swan' and a Passionate Gardener, Is Dead at 91". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  11. ^ Colacello, Bob (8 August 2013). "The Mysterious Heirs of Italian Prince Carlo Caracciolo". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  12. ^ Rizzo, Sergio (25 April 2020). "Nicola Caracciolo, l'irriducibile". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  13. ^ a b Agnelli, Marella (2015). La Signora Gocà – 1ª ediz (in Italian). Milano: Adelphi Edizioni Piccola Biblioteca Adelphi 674. pp. 234–235–236. ISBN 9788845930409.
  14. ^ "Ettore Bernardo Rosboch". Camera dei deputati – Portale Storico (in Italian). Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  15. ^ [1] Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Announcement of the engagement.
  16. ^ "C'est officiel: le prince Amedeo et Elisabetta Maria Rosboch von Wolkenstein vont se marier à Rome le 5 juillet". sudinfo.be (in French). 28 May 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2021.

Further reading

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  • Berrettini, Mireno (2008). "Gli inglesi, la diplomazia clandestina e l'Italia badogliana. Lo Special Operations Executive e la 'missione' di Filippo Caracciolo". Nuova Storia Contemporanea. No. 1. pp. 31–44.
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