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  Alessandro Cagliostro: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cagliostro is widely held to have been an alias for the charlatan Giuseppe Balsamo, EHandler: no quick summary.
Cagliostro himself claimed to have been born of Christians of noble birth, EHandler: no quick summary.
The fortress of san leo is a castle on the border of the marche and romagna regions of central italy, and famous as the death-place of count cagliostro....
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 CAGLIOSTRO - LoveToKnow Article on CAGLIOSTRO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Having at last got into trouble with the authorities he fled from Sicily, and visited in succession Greece, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, Rhodes where he took lessons in alchemy and the cognate sciences from the Greek Althotasand Malta.
There he presented himself to the grand master of the Maltese order as Count Cagliostro, and curried favor with him as a fellow alchemist, for the grand masters tastes lay in the same direction.
the affair of the Diamond Necklace (q.v.); and although Cagliostro escaped conviction by the matchless impudence of his defence, he was imprisoned for other reasons in the Bastille.
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 CAGLIOSTRO, ALESSANDRO... - Online Information article about CAGLIOSTRO, ALESSANDRO...
Poland, and then again to Paris, where, in 1785, he was implicated in the affair of the See also:
Diamond Necklace (q.v.) ; and although Cagliostro escaped conviction by the matchless impudence of his See also:
SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital.
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