Statecraft: The Deeds of Antonio CarafaIn 1716 Giambattista Vico published De rebus gestis Antonj Caraphaei to celebrate Neapolitan Antonio Carafa who emigrated to Vienna in 1662 to serve at the Court of Leopold I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor. After becoming familiar with the intrigues of the Viennese court, Carafa gradually learned the secrets of state and the arts of public administration and of governing. Enjoying the favors of the emperor and of the royal princes related to the Habsburgs, Charles of Lorraine and Maximillian of Bavaria, Carafa was allowed to leave the Viennese court for the Hungarian marshes. His military experience grew under the leadership of generals such as Montecuccoli and Lorraine and he was promoted to higher ranks according to the many accomplishments that revealed his bravery, foresight, prudence, strategy, and political diplomacy. Leopold appointed him Military Governor first of Upper Hungary and then of Transylvania as well as General Commissary of all imperial armies on all fronts: Rhine, Danube, and Po. However, because of the jealous attacks of his rivals, Carafa was recalled to Vienna where he died of despair. |
Contents
Letter Presenting the Canzone and the Canzone 1693 | 15 |
Letter to Adriano Carafa 1715 | 21 |
From Naples to Vienna and Budapest | 29 |
The Education of Antonio Carafa | 35 |
Antonio Serves in Alsace and Hungary under Montecuccoli | 45 |
Antonios Military Experience in Upper Hungary | 53 |
Causes of the War Against Turks and Thököly | 59 |
Structure and Condition of the Ottoman Empire | 81 |
Caesar Orders Carafa to Subdue Transylvania | 207 |
The Palatine of Transylvania | 217 |
Diplomacy in Transylvania | 223 |
The New Treaty | 233 |
Carafa Appointed Chief Quaestor of the Imperial Army | 241 |
Temesvár or Belgrade? | 249 |
From Belgrade to Mainz Bonn Milan and Vienna | 265 |
Restructuring the Government of Hungary | 271 |
The Vicissitudes of Thököly | 97 |
The Great Christian Victory | 105 |
From Budapest to Mohács and Eger | 111 |
Carafa Mehmet Agha and Alexander Mavrokordátos | 125 |
Carafa Leopold I and Mehmet Agha | 131 |
Carafa and the War Council | 137 |
The Conspiracy of Eperjes | 147 |
Mehmet Agha | 155 |
The Second Battle of Mohács | 161 |
Joseph of Habsburg | 167 |
Carafas Concerns for Personal Safety and Honor | 175 |
The Surrender of Munkács | 189 |
The Principality of Transylvania | 201 |
A Historical Excursus | 277 |
Reasons for the Peace with the Turks | 287 |
King James William of Orange and the Allies | 293 |
Lorraine and Carafa | 303 |
The Rhine | 309 |
The Danube | 315 |
The Italian Heads of State and the Imperial Agent | 321 |
Pope Innocent XII and Count Carafa | 329 |
France and the Imperial Plenipotentiary | 335 |
The Demise of Count Antonio Carafa | 341 |
A Portrait of Antonio Carafa | 345 |
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