The New York Times: ALESSANDRO CAGLIOSTRO.; AN OLD STORY NEWLY TOLD. THE MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN IN A NEW SHAPE A VARIORUM EDITION OF BALSAMO'S LIFE THE ADVENTURES OF THE ...
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Alessandro Cagliostro
Giuseppe Balsamo, known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, was an Italian occultist, self-styled magician and confidence trickster. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying. In his 1833 essay, Count Cagliostro, Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) pronounced him the "Quack of Quacks…
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science · Italian occultist (1743–1795) · physician · alchemist · adventurer · confidence trickster · impostor · occultist · also Alessandro Cagliostro, Balsamo Giuseppe Conte di Cagliostro, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Cagliostro
Born 2 June 1743 · Died 26 August 1795 · Q312332
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Featured Cagliostro's risen spirit
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1875· 1 entry
Johann Strauß (Sohn) wrote the operetta Cagliostro in Wien (Cagliostro in Vienna)
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1850· 1 entry
Albert Lortzing wrote the libretto for a comic opera Cagliostro, but did not compose music for it
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1813· 1 entry
By the three Jewish Bédarride brothers and in France, the Rite of Memphis founded in 1838 by Jacques Etienne Marconis de Nègre; these unified under Giuseppe Garibaldi as the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm
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1795· 1 entry
Died 1795-08-26.
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1743· 1 entry
Born 1743-06-02.
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