Cagliostro, Count

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. 

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... 

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... 

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,... 

It was only half a dozen years since Count Casanova had predicted the likely fate of the young Sicilian pilgrim Giuseppe Balsamo, and Colonel Pellegrini-Cagliostro seemed intent on proving him right. 

Frederick von Medem had been dead barely nine months when, at the end of February 1779, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro and his wife Countess Seraphina arrived at Mitau, capital of the small East European duchy of Courland-Zemgale now called Latvia. Fredericks untimely death had devastated the women of his family—his stepmother, cousin, and aunt and most especially his younger sister Elisa von der Recke. 

The visitor was Alessandro di Cagliostro, and the Masons of Mitau had been expecting him. Elisa s father, Count Johann von Medem, and her... 

As the coach trundled off for Saint Petersburg, Elisa von der Recke could not help feeling proudly tearful to be one of Count Cagliostro s infants of heaven. ... 

Heyking was unimpressed, responding rudely that Cagliostros Rosicrucian insignia looked like a makeshift adaptation of the commonplace Polish star of Saint Stanislaus. When the count explained that he d borrowed this insignia from von Howen because his Rosicrucian original had been stolen, the major snickered. 

Indeed, huffed Cagliostro. What is a fever for the Count Cagliostro who can command the spirits ... 

In the middle of this frosty exchange, a servant of the Spanish charge d affaires, M. de Normandez, was ushered in carrying a written demand for Cagliostro to present his official credentials at the Saint Petersburg legation immediately. The count exploded this was too much. Who did this petty official think he was As far as Cagliostro was concerned, he could go to hell. 

Seeing Heyking s sarcastic smile, the count continued, I m not worried by your skepticism you re not the first strong spirit I ve subdued and pulverized— In time you ll come to recognize Count Cagliostro and his power, he added quietly. 

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