CARLO EMANUELE I, DUKE OF SAVOY (1562-1630), 1580 Jan Kraeck known as Giovanni Caracca (active 1567/1607). Dutch school. At eighteen, Carlo Emanuele I succeeded his father as Duke of Savoy, pursuing with great energy but little skill his policy of reconstruction and enlargement. He was an ambitious politician and cultivated prince, who was friendly with poets and authors such as Torquato Tasso.