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Alessandro Cagliostro

1743 - 1795

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Giuseppe Balsamo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈbalsamo]; 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (US: ka(h)l-YAW-stroh, Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro]), was an Italian occultist and confidence trickster. Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying. His reputation lingered for many decades after his death but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) in 1833, who pronounced him the "Quack of Quacks". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Cagliostro is the 10th most popular occultist (down from 8th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Italy (down from 408th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Occultist.

Alessandro Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician. He became a glamorous figure in European high society. Cagliostro was a skilled con artist and self-promoter.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 10 out of 41. Before him are Baba Vanga, John Dee, Anton LaVey, Helena Blavatsky, Count of St. Germain, and Éliphas Lévi. After him are Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Edgar Cayce, Joachim of Fiore, A. E. Waite, and Manly P. Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, Antoine Lavoisier, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, and Luigi Boccherini. After him are Toussaint Louverture, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Among people deceased in 1795, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 2. Before him is Louis XVII of France. After him are François-André Danican Philidor, Sayat-Nova, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Henry Clinton, Ahilyabai Holkar, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Georg Benda, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Michael Bellman, and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 480 out of 5,161. Before him are Simone Martini (1284), Andrea del Sarto (1486), Andrea Doria (1466), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), and Parmigianino (1503). After him are Pietro Mascagni (1863), Gaius Cassius Longinus (-87), Pope John XVIII (970), Pope Zephyrinus (150), Francis II of the Two Sicilies (1836), and Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (-300).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Italy

Among occultists born in Italy, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 1. After him are Joachim of Fiore (1135).

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