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 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.

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.