See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

COUNT ALESSANDRO See also:

• COUNT ALESSANDRO CAGLIOSTRO (1743-1795)

CAGLIOSTRO (1743-1795)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian alchemist and impostor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PALERMO (Greek, Havopuos; Latin, Panhormus, Panormus)

Palermo on the 8th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1743 . Giuseppe Balsamo—for such was the " See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count's" real name—gave See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early indications of those talents which afterwards gained for him so wide a notoriety . He received the rudiments of his See also:

• EDUCATION

education at the monastery of See also:

• CALTAGIRONE

Caltagirone in See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, but was expelled from it for misconduct and disowned by his relations . He now signalized himself by his dissolute See also:

• LIFE

life and the ingenuity with which he contrived to perpetrate forgeries and other crimes without exposing himself to the See also:

• RISK

risk of detection . Having at last got into trouble with the authorities he fled from Sicily, and visited in See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession See also:

• GREECE

Greece, See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, See also:

• ARABIA

Arabia, See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, See also:

• RHODES
• RHODES, CECIL JOHN (1853-1902)
• RHODES, JAMES FORD

Rhodes —where he took lessons in See also:

• ALCHEMY

alchemy and the cognate sciences from the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Althotas—and See also:

• MALTA
• MALTA (or MEDITERRANEAN) FEVER

Malta . There he presented himself to the See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the Maltese See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order as Count See also:

• CAGLIOSTRO, ALESSANDRO, COUNT (1743-1795)

Cagliostro, and curried favour with him as a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow alchemist, for the grand master's tastes See also:

• LAY

lay in the same direction . From him he obtained introductions to the See also:

• GREAT

great houses of See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome and See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples, whither he now hastened . At Rome he married a beautiful but unprincipled woman, Lorenza Feliciani, with whom he travelled, under different names, through many parts of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . It is unnecessary to recount the various infamous means which he employed to pay his expenses during these journeys . He visited See also:

• LONDON

London and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1771, selling love-philtres, elixirs of youth, mixtures for making ugly See also:

• WOMEN

women beautiful, alchemistic powders, &c., and deriving large profits from his See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . After further travels on the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent he re-turned to London, where he posed as the founder of a new See also:

• SYSTEM

system of See also:

• FREEMASONRY

freemasonry, and was well received in the best society, being adored by the ladies . He went to See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany and See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland once more, and to See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia, See also:

• POLAND (Polish Polska, Ger. Polen), (see POLAND, RUSSIAN, below)
• POLAND, RUSSIAN

Poland, and then again to Paris, where, in 1785, he was implicated in the affair of the See also:

• DIAMOND

Diamond Necklace (q.v.) ; and although Cagliostro escaped conviction by the matchless impudence of his See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence, he was imprisoned for other reasons in the See also:

• BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

Bastille .

On his liberation he visited See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England once more, where he succeeded well at first; but was ultimately outwitted by some See also:

• ENGLISH

English lawyers, and confined for a while in the See also:

• FLEET

Fleet See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison . Leaving England, he travelled through Europe as far as Rome, where he was arrested in 1789 . He was tried and condemned to See also:

• DEATH

death for being a heretic, but the See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence was commuted to perpetual imprisonment, while his wife was immured in a See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent . He died in the fortress prison of See also:

• SAN

San See also:

• LEO
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

Leo in 1795 . The best See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the life, adventures and See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of Giuseppe Balsamo is contained in See also:

• CARLYLE, ALEXANDER (1722-1805)
• CARLYLE, JOSEPH DACRE (1759-18o4)
• CARLYLE, THOMAS (1795-1881)

Carlyle's Miscellanies . See also:

• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE [" DUMAS FILS"] (1824-1895)
• DUMAS, GUILLAUME MATHIEU, COUNT (1753-1837)
• DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE (1800-1884)

Dumas 's novel, See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs of a Physician, is founded on his adventures; see also a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of papers in the See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin University See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine, vols. lxxviii. and Ixxix.; Memorial, or Brief for Cagliostro in the Cause of Card. de See also:

• ROHAN
• ROHAN, HENRI
• ROHAN, LOUIS RENE EDOUARD, CARDINAL DE (1734-1803)

Rohan, &c . (Fr.) by P . See also:

• MACMAHON, MARIE

Macmahon (1786) ; Compendia della vita e delle gesta di Giuseppe Balsamo denominato ii See also:

• CONTE

conte di Cagliostro (Rome, 1791); Sierke, Schwdrmer and Schwindler zu Ende See also:

• DES

des XVIII . Jahrhunderts (1875); and the See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of his life in D . Silvagni's La-See also:

• CORTE

Corte e la Societal See also:

• ROMANA

Romana See also:

• NEI

nei secoli XVIII. e X IX. vol. i . (See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, 1881) . (L .