Carlo caracciolo biography
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Carlo Caracciolo: Newspaper publisher who founded 'La Repubblica' founder and champion
Tall and distinguished-looking, a prince of the long-defunct royal house of Naples, the son of a diplomat father and Californian mother, Carlo Caracciolo was born with most advantages in life except money. But with flair and determination that belied his languid persona, he not only restored his family's fortunes but in the process became one of the most important media publishers in Italy, responsible for the creation of its liveliest daily paper and weekly news magazine.
"The promoters of this newspaper," ran the front page editorial in the first issue of his weekly, L'Espresso, in October 1955, "maintain that the absolute independence of the press is the most solid foundation of democracy. This independence, in the present conditions of the Italian press, is very often illusory. Obsequiousness, and the mere suspicion of obsequiousness, towards owners results in the press having less authority
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Carlo Caracciolo
Italian nobleman and publisher (1925–2008)
For the 17th-century general, see Carlo Andrea Caracciolo.
DonCarlo Caracciolo, 9th Prince of Castagneto, 4th Duke of Melito (23 October 1925 – 15 December 2008), was an Italian publisher.[1] He created Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, one of Italy's leading publishing groups, which included Italy's newspaper of record, La Repubblica.[2] He was known as "the editor prince", a reference to his aristocratic birth and elegant manner.[3][4][5]
Early life
[edit]The oldest of three children, Caracciolo was born in Florence to Filippo Caracciolo, 8th Principe di Castagneto, 3rd Duca di Melito, and American heiress Margaret Clarke. He was an older brother to Nicola Caracciolo and Marella Agnelli, the wife of Fiat S.p.A. chairman Gianni Agnelli and half-sibling of rulle producer Ettore Rosboch von Wolkenstein, whose daughter Bloomberg News reporter Elisabetta "Lili", Car
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They were all there—the Agnellis, Caracciolos, Borgheses, Viscontis, and Pasolinis—some 40 members of Italy’s grandest clans, gathered together at a family compound in southern Tuscany on a chilly morning last December to bury one of their own. The dearly departed was Carlo Caracciolo, Prince of Castagneto and Duke of Melito; co-founder of L’Espresso and La Repubblica, the country’s most influential newsweekly and leading leftist newspaper; brother-in-law of its most famous industrialist, the late Gianni Agnelli; and Public Enemy No. 1 of its out-of-control head of government, Silvio Berlusconi. The day before, some 600 mourners—everyone who was anyone in Italian media, politics, and society (except Berlusconi)—had packed the Basilica of San Bartolomeo, on Rome’s Isola Tiberina, for Caracciolo’s funeral Mass. Now his family and closest friends waited for the hearse to arrive at Garavicchio, the Caracciolos’ 500-acre country estate an hour and a half north of Rome. There were Car