'' 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.

Biography

Caracciolo was the 8th

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of Castagneto, the 3rd

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of Melito, and an hereditary Patrician of Naples from an old noble Neapolitan family dating back to the

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. He graduated in political and commercial sciences and in 1934 assumed diplomatic positions in Turkey, Switzerland, and Strasbourg. He took part in the

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, and hosted exiled anti-fascists, including

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. During the

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congress in 1944, he became the executive secretary of the

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, and later became the

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of the

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in the

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. During this time, he helped overcome objections for the

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to join the government. Caracciolo later became secretary for the Action Party, and from 1949 to 1954 was general-secretary of the

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. In 1963 Caracciolo was appointed President of FIA, a job he held until his death in 1965.

Family

Caracciolo married Margaret Clarke (1898–1955) of

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and

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, the heiress of a well-known family of

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producers; they had three children:

Carlo Caracciolo '' Don'' Carlo Caracciolo, 9th Prince of Castagneto, 4th Duke of Melito (23 October 1925 – 15 December 2008), was an Italian publisher. He created Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, one of Italy's leading publishing groups, which included Italy's n ...

(1925–2008) who went on to found the

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Marella Agnelli Marella Agnelli (; born ''Donna'' Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto ; 4 May 1927 – 23 February 2019) was an Italian noblewoman, art collector, socialite, style icon, and wife of Fiat S.p.A. chairman Gianni Agnelli. She often appeared in the fa ...

(1927–2019) who became an art collector, socialite, style icon, and wife of

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chairman

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, and

Nicola Caracciolo '' Don'' Nicola Caracciolo, 10th Prince of Castagneto, 5th Duke of Melito (19 May 1931 – 24 April 2020), was an Italian nobleman, journalist, and historian. Early life Born in Florence, Kingdom of Italy, he was the 10th Prince of Castagneto ...

(1931–2020), who went on to become a journalist. He is claimed to have been the biological father of the Italian film producer Ettore Rosboch von Wolkenstein (b. 1945), son of Baroness Elisabeth

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von Wolkenstein (1915–1959), who at the time of his birth had been a widow ''Nobile'' Ettore Bernardo Rosboch (1893–1944), Italian

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Finance

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, for too long for Ettore to have been his

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son. Ettore's only child Elisabetta Maria Rosboch von Wolkenstein married Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Hereditary Archduke of Austria-Este and has three children.

References

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Filippo Caracciolo
at Filippo Caracciolo Foundation (in Italian)
Congresso di Bari
at ''

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'' (in Italian)
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Italian anti-fascists 20th-century Italian nobility Presidents of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile FIA people

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