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OCCULTIST

Alessandro Cagliostro

1743 - 1795

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Giuseppe Balsamo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈbalsamo]; in French usually Joseph Balsamo; 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 726,420 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Alessandro Cagliostro is the 8th most popular occultist (up from 9th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 371st 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 37. Before him are Grigori Rasputin, Baba Vanga, John Dee, Helena Blavatsky, Count of St. Germain, and Aleister Crowley. After him are Anton LaVey, Allan Kardec, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, and Edgar Cayce.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Cagliostro ranks 402 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Nicholas IV (1227), Alberto Moravia (1907), Carlo Ponti (1912), Umberto Boccioni (1882), Toto Cutugno (1943), and Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (1771). After him are Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Philip Neri (1515), Claudio Abbado (1933), Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492), Gaius Julius Caesar (-135), and Pope Eugene I (600).

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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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