Alessandro Cagliostro
Italian occultist, alchemist, and impostor (1743–1795)
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Eighteenth-century Italian con artist who charmed European royalty with occult theatrics—psychic healing, alchemy, the full mystical package. Thomas Carlyle later called him the "Quack of Quacks," which honestly tracks.
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Giuseppe Balsamo, known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, was an Italian occultist, self-styled magician and confidence trickster. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying. In his 1833 essay, Count Cagliostro, Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) pronounced him the "Quack of Quacks".
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