Carlo Caracciolo

Carlo Caracciolo ( born October 23, 1925 in Florence, † December 15, 2008 in Trastevere, Rome) was an Italian media entrepreneur.

Life

Carlo Caracciolo was the son of the Neapolitan prince Filippo Caracciolo di Castagneto, Duke of Melito, and the American Margaret Clarke. His sister was married to Giovanni Agnelli Marella.

During the Second World War he was active in the Italian resistance. He studied law after the war at the University La Sapienza in Rome and at the Harvard Law School in Boston. In 1951, he founded the Milan publisher etas compass that particular published technical journals and yearbooks from the industry. In 1955 he acquired the majority interest in the Italian weekly magazine L'espresso. In 1976 he founded with Eugenio Scalfari the daily La Repubblica. 2007 Caracciolo bought a third of the French daily newspaper Libération.

He was regarded as the most influential media entrepreneur in Italy and as an opponent of Silvio Berlusconi.