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.

Biography
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. 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. During this time, he helped overcome objections for the Italian Communist Party to join the government. Caracciolo later became secretary for the Action Party, and from 1949 to 1954 was general-secretary of the Council of Europe. 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 Peoria, Illinois and Rockford, Illinois, the heiress of a well-known family of whiskey producers; they had three children: Carlo Caracciolo (1925–2008) who went on to found the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, Marella Agnelli (1927–2019) who became an art collector, socialite, style icon, and wife of Fiat S.p.A. chairman Gianni Agnelli, and Nicola Caracciolo (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 Jaworski von Wolkenstein (1915–1959), who at the time of his birth had been a widow Nobile Ettore Bernardo Rosboch (1893–1944), Italian Fascist Finance Undersecretary of State, 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, Hereditary Archduke of Austria-Este and has three children.