[1] In September 1701, following the accession of Philip of Bourbon, Carafa played the leading part in the Conspiracy of Macchia.
[3] The chief influences on his political thinking were the Jesuit Francisco María Torres and the traditionalist Tommaso Strozzi [it].
He brought news of the conquest to Charles of Habsburg, then in Barcelona, and urged him to concentrate on securing Naples over conquering Spain.
He sponsored La Cilla by Francesco Antonio Tullio [it] and Michelangelo Faggioli, the first commedia per musica, in his own home in 1707.
Appointed vicar general of the province of Principato Ultra [it] in December 1733 and subsequently governor of Terra di Bari.
Unable to defend either in the face of a Bourbon invasion [it], he fled the kingdom a second time for Venice and Vienna in May 1734.
In 1707, Carafa wrote a Parere (opinion) dedicated to Charles of Habsburg in which he identified four reforms the kingdom needed: a new legal code, an army recruited locally, the shoring up of the old nobility and academies to foster education and technical skill.
[1] In the Relazione, he laments the attitudes of the city thus:Naples, in order not to stain the title of 'most faithful city' which it had borne for over three thousand years, had made it a fundamental principle humbly to pray God to grant it a good prince, but, in practice, to tolerate any one that came along.
[7]Carafa wrote many patriotic and moralizing poems, but also at least one poetic fable, Iliso o l'amante generoso.