Cagliostro

Cagliostro s transmutation in Warsaw. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemy/cagliost.html1. 

There is a detailed account of how, on June 7th, 1780, Cagliostro made silver in a Masonic Lodge in Warsaw, as one of the members recorded a description of the experiment... 

Count Cagliostro. rhttp //www. crystalinks.com/cagliostro.html1. 

Dilworth, James. Alessandro, Count di Cagliostro (Giuseppe Balsamo) 1743-1795. rhttp //www. themvstica.com/mvstica/articles/c/cagliostro.htmll. 

Gervaso, Roberto.Cagliostro a biography / by Roberto Gervaso translated [from the Italian] by Cormac 6 Cuilleanain. Translated by Cormac 6 Cuilleanain. London Gollancz, 1974. 272p. 

McCalman, Iain. The last alchemist - Count Cagliostro master of magic in the age of reason. New York HarperCollins, 2003. xii, 272p. ISBN 0-06-000690-0... 

In this biography of the 18th-century occultist, a scholar provides the historical facts as well as the controversy. Cagliostro was well-known across Europe, and knew the rich, famous, and powerful, such as Catherine the Great. He elicited strong reactions from others, including the Church, which had him imprisoned. Was he a total fake Professor... 

McAlman here explores Cagliostro s ideas of freemasonry and of healing, which seem to prefigure the New Age thought in modern times. 

Photiades, Constantin. Count Cagliostro an authentic story of a mysterious life translated by K.S. Shelvankar. 1932 reprint, Lonson KeganPaul International, 2005. 288p. ISBN 0-7103-0982-1... 

Trowbridge, W.R.H. Cagliostro. New Hyde Park (NY) University Books, 1960. 

Hecht, L. Cagliostro in Russia. Eighteenth-Cent Life 1, no. 4 (1975) 71-76. 

Guenther, Johannes von. Cagliostro translated by Huntley Paterson, with illustrations by Paul Wenck. New York, London Harper Brothers, 1929. 445p. 

A historical novel based on the life of the very real Italian occultist, 1743-1795, who was a self-styled mystic, healer, leader of an exotic brand of Freemasonry was arrested for heresy in 1791 on the order of Pope Pius VI and spent the last five years of his life in prison. Count Alessandro Cagliostro s real name was Giuseppe Balsamo. Born in Palermo in 1743, he studied alchemy and sold elixirs and potions all over Europe, and became the rage of Paris society as they flocked to his Seances. He became implicated in the "Affair of the Diamond Necklace" in 1785-6 and was banished from France. 

McCalman, Iain. The seven ordeals of Count Cagliostro. Sydney Flamingo,... 

His enemies called him a coarse, shallow charlatan, but he d somehow survived the harsh eraser of history. You can still see Cagliostro today in science fiction movies like Spawn or in dramatic costume movies like The Affair of the Necklace. At least half a dozen films have been made about his life—in Russia, in America, in Germany, in Italy, and in France. In the last two countries, he still features in television cartoons, comics, pop music, and pulp novels. More highbrow consumers encounter him as Sarastro in Mozart s famous opera The Magic Flute, or in Johann Strauss s operetta Cagliostro in Wien. 

Cagliostro s many attackers also presented another enigma. The Roman Inquisitor Monsignor Barberi, who spent fifteen months interrogating Cagliostro in the Castle of Sant Angelo, posed it in 1791 ... 

A near contemporary, the rabidly brilliant Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle, took Barberi s question a step further by asking, in 1833, how all this could have been achieved by a man devoid of looks, charm, or intellect. Carlyle blamed Cagliostro s success on the eighteenth century itself, which was not, he said, an age of reason and enlightenment, as is usually claimed, but an age of fraud and superstition. 

When locals come to eat in my restaurant, the patron said with a grin, they always make the same joke. They say that the street name of Balsamo s house was changed because everyone in the Albergheria always called it via Pisciata rather than via Perciata. In the market, when the call of nature comes, he explained, Balsamo s lane is the best spot to go. That s why it stinks of piss. Piss, they say, was Cagliostro s first elixir. They love him for that. 

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