Albert of Caprara

Albert Graf von Caprara , actually Italian Alberto Caprara (born November 26, 1627 in Bologna , † December 20, 1691 in Constantinople ) was an Italian imperial general and diplomat in the Austrian - Habsburg service.

Caprara was the scion of an old Bolognese noble family in the Papal States . His brother was Cardinal Alessandro Caprara . He was a nephew of the imperial equestrian general Octavio Piccolomini and a cousin of the general and statesman Raimund von Montecuccoli .

Caprara was trained at the Accademia dei Gelati . Between 1654 and 1660 he stayed in Rome and attended the Accademia degli Umoristi there . In 1684 he attended the Academy of Queen Christina of Sweden .

As an imperial officer , he distinguished himself in the Turkish wars in Hungary . But he was even more successful in two diplomatic missions with which he was sent to Constantinople in 1682 and 1685. The first mission in 1682 was to renew the Peace of Eisenburg (1664).

Noteworthy is the report on his first mission published by his secretary , Giovanni Benaglia .

Caprara was also active in writing. He translated works by the younger Seneca into German .

Works

• Orazione per l'Immaculata Santissima Concezione di Maria Vergine. Del conte Alberto Caprara a madama serenissima la signora principessa Margherita de 'Medici Farnese duchessa di Parma, Roma, per Ignatio de' Lazari, 1667
• La felicita della Polonia nella coronatione della sacra real maestà di Leonora d'Austria sua regina oratione del conte Alberto Caprara alla sacra cesarea real maestà dell'imperatrice Leonora, Vienna, Lepoldo Voigt stampatore dell'Università, 1670
• Consolatione del conte Alberto Caprara per la marchesa Olimpia Nari Caprara nella morte de'un suo figlio. Al conte Enea Caprara gentilhuomo della Camera di SM Cesarea, colonnello di cavalleria, e sergente generale di battaglia, Vienna, per Michele Thurmajer Stampator Accademico, 1672Insegorni del vivere del conte Alberto Caprara a Massimo suo nipote, Bologna, per l'erede di Domenico Barbieri ad instanza di Gio. Francesco Dauico detto il Turrino, 1672
• Li precetti del matrimonio da Plutarco dettati à Polliano, ed Euridice e di nuouo spiegati dal conte Alberto Caprara ... al senatore conte Alessio Orsi, e contessa Artimisia Caprara suoi nipoti, Roma, nella stamperia della RCA, 1684
• Relatione del presente Governo ottomano fatta dal sig. Alberto Caprara, stato ultimamente internunzio a quella corte, Lucca, appresso Iacinto Paci, 1684
• Applausi poetici nel monacarsi l'illustrissima signora contessa Margherita Felice Caprara pigliando il nome di d. Maria Scolastica Girolama Diletta nel monastero di Santa Margherita, Bologna, per Giuseppe Longhi, 1688

literature

• Giovanni Benaglia: Detailed description of a tear from Vienna to Constantinople and back again in Germany, also what happened to Merck; deß Hoch-Gebohrnen Counts and Lords, Mr. Albrecht Caprara etc., etc., which he called Jhro Römisch-Keyserl. Maj. Extraordinari Envoy and Plenipotentiary brought the standstill to the Ottomanis. To extend gates . - Franckfurt: Wagner, 1687.
• Carlo Caprara, I Caprara, Valgimigli, Faenza, 1993.