Carafa (alternate spelling: Caraffa) is the name of a noble Neapolitan family of Italian nobles, clergy, and men of arts.
There are other people with the surname Carafa or Caraffa whose connection to the noble family of that name is undocumented. The surname was also misspelt or derogated to Caiafa and there are many families in Naples and the Campania region sharing that altered version of the surname.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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