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Giuseppe Balsamo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈbalsamo]; in French usually Joseph Balsamo; 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (US: / k ɑː l ˈ j ɔː s t r oʊ, k æ l-/ ka(h)l-YAW-stroh, Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro]), was an Italian occultist. Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self ...
May 29, 2024 · Alessandro, count di Cagliostro (born June 2, 1743, Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [Italy]—died Aug. 26, 1795, San Leo, Papal States) was a charlatan, magician, and adventurer who enjoyed enormous success in Parisian high society in the years preceding the French Revolution.
Dec 18, 2015 · Alessandro Cagliostro achieved immortality in all kinds of ways: through opera, as a screen villain, even as a font. The occultist Aleister Crowley claimed that Cagliostro lived through him,...
An Italian adventurer and self-styled magician who became a glamorous figure in the royal courts of Europe where he reputedly excelled in various occult arts, such as psychic healing, alchemy and scrying. It was the fashion during the latter half of the 19th century to regard Cagliostro as a charlatan and impostor, and this point of view was ...
Alessandro Cagliostro, Conte di (älĕs-sän´drō kōn´tā dē kälyō´strō), 1743–95, Italian adventurer, magician, and alchemist, whose real name was Giuseppe Balsamo. After early misadventures in Italy he traveled in Greece, Arabia, Persia, and Egypt.
Count Alessandro Cagliostro’s sincere belief in the magical powers, including immortality, conferred by his Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry won him fame, but made him dangerous enemies, too. His celebrated travels through the Middle East and the capitals of Europe ended abruptly in Rome in 1789, where he was arrested by the Inquisition and ...
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795) was the alias of occultist & alchemist Giuseppe Balsamo. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, and alchemy.
A friend and successor of Comte de Saint Germaine, Count Alessandro Cagliostro was a glamorous figure in the royal courts of Europe, where he practiced magic, psychic healing, alchemy, scrying, and other occult arts. He has been called both a fraud and a genuine Adept.
Count Alessandro Cagliostro (1743-1795) was an Italian adventurer and magician. He was implicated in the affair of the diamond necklace, imprisoned, acquitted, and banished. He was an international celebrity, an exponent of Masonic mysteries and a student of Mesmer and the art of hypnotism.
Founder of Egyptian Freemasonry in 1777, the self-styled Alessandro, Comte de Cagliostro had a considerably larger impact on the popular imagination than he had on Freemasonry. His "confession" to the Inquisition regarding the Illuminati was used by both Robison and Barruel in their attacks on Freemasonry.
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