# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alessandro-cagliostro
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:20:38.403Z

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name: "Alessandro Cagliostro"
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description: "Giuseppe Balsamo talked his way into the palaces of Europe by calling himself a count and promising alchemy, prophecy, and healing — then watching it unravel into the most celebrated con of the eighteenth century."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Giuseppe Balsamo on 2 June 1743, he shed his real name for the invented title Count Alessandro di Cagliostro and began working the royal courts of Europe as an occultist and self-styled magician. He offered psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying — enough spectacle to keep the fascination alive and the invitations coming. The trick held until it didn't. By the time Thomas Carlyle sat down to write about him in 1833, decades after Cagliostro died on 26 August 1795, the verdict was already in: "Quack of Quacks."