Alessandro Cagliostro
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Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (June 2, 1743 Palermo, Sicily - August 26, 1795 San Leo, Province of Pesaro and Urbino) was the alias for the charlatan Giuseppe Balsamo, an Italian traveller, occultist and Freemason.
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In fiction
- Alexandre Dumas, père used Cagliostro in several of his novels.
- Caligostro has been played in film by Orson Welles (Black Magic, 1949), Howard Vernon (Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, 1972) and Christopher Walken (The Affair of the Necklace, 2001).
- Cagliostro is a character in Robert Anton Wilson's The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles.
- Cagliostro is frequently alluded to in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum.
- Mikhail Kuzmin wrote a novella called The Marvelous Life of Giuseppe Balsamo, Count Cagliostro (1916).
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Occult tricks a la Cagliostro
More scandals followed and Casanova moved on to Venice where he made his way by defrauding wealthy socialites with occult tricks a la Cagliostro. ...
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The charlatan Cagliostro
This element of Rosicrucianism, fostesed by a wave of popular magical interest exemplified in the vogue of the charlatan Cagliostro and the publication of ... --[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]] (1924-1927) - H. P. Lovecraft
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