OCCULTIST

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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Cagliostro has received more than 781,354 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Alessandro Cagliostro is the 8th most popular occultist, the 408th most popular biography from Italy (down from 401st 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 8 out of 41. Before him are Grigori Rasputin, John Dee, Baba Vanga, Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, and Count of St. Germain. After him are Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, and Anton LaVey.

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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 Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Toussaint Louverture, and Nicolai Abildgaard. Among people deceased in 1795, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 2. Before him is Louis XVII of France. After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Sayat-Nova, François-André Danican Philidor, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Georg Benda, Carl Michael Bellman, Ahilyabai Holkar, Josiah Wedgwood, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, and Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 408 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Silverius (490), Luigi Boccherini (1743), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519), Pietro Mascagni (1863), and Pope Innocent IV (1195). After him are Petronius Maximus (396), Antonio Meucci (1808), Philip Neri (1515), Pope Leo VII (900), Charles I of Hungary (1288), and Pope Anastasius I (340).

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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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