Francesco Carafa della Spina di Traetto

Francesco Carafa della Spina di Traetto (29 April 1722, Naples - 20 September 1818, Rome) was an Italian cardinal.

He was the great-great uncle of cardinal Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto (1844).

He was made titular archbishop of Patras in 1760, before being sent to the Republic of Venice as Apostolic Nuncio.

He was a member of the Congregzione deputata per gli acquisti fatti nel tempo della rivoluzione.

During the French occupation of Rome between 1809 and 1814, he took refuge in the convent of Saint Philip of Neri Montalbaddo in Marches.