Felice Caronni CRSP (8 November 1747 – 10 April 1815) was an Italian memoir writer, numismatist and archeologist.

He fell victim to the Barbary slave trade after having been abducted by the barbary corsairs in 1804. After having returned to Italy, he wrote a memoir of his experience as a slave, which is one of the latest slave narratives of the barbary slave trade. Any profits from the book were to go towards ransoming Christian slaves in Tunisia.

Felice Caronni was born in Monza on 8 November 1747 into a family of wealthy merchants. After completing his studies in the Milan Seminary, he was ordained a priest in Lodi on 19 October 1770. He taught the Humanities at the college of San Giovanni alla Vigne of Lodi until 1771, when he was transferred to Arpino to teach Rhetoric at the local college.

In the autumn of 1773 he spent a long period in Rome, where he befriended Giovanni Battista Visconti, a disciple of Winckelmann who had become curator of the Museo Pio-Clementino. He became friends with Visconti's sons, Ennio Quirino, Filippo Aurelio and Alessandro. Visconti encouraged Caronni to pursue the study of archaeology.

In October 1773 he was transferred to Livorno. He gave an account of his travel in a letter to Visconti, in which he describes the ancient works of art he had seen in the Grand Ducal Gallery in Florence.

In 1775 he was transferred to Genoa, where he continued his teaching activity and devoted himself to the study of archaeology and in particular numismatics.

In 1780 Caronni was transferred again to Rome where he resumed contact with Visconti and furthered his archaeological studies, but due to health problems he was transferred to Bormio in 1782.

In 1786 he was transferred to Mantua, where he began a correspondence with the prominent archaeologist Angelo Maria Cortenovis.