Caraffa

Caraffa is the name of an ancient and famous Neapolitan family, to which several cardinals and Pope Paul IV. (q.v.) belonged.—CARLO CARAFFA, nephew of Paul IV., was born in 1517, fought in the Netherlands, joined the Knights of Malta, and was made cardinal by his uncle. Paul had ultimately to banish the cardinal and his brothers from Rome for extortion; and in 1561 Pope Pius IV. caused him to be put to death. See the work by Durny (Paris, 1883), and Canon Jenkins, The Story of the Caraffa (1886).