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Occult historian Lewis Spence comments in his entry on Cagliostro that the swindler put his finagled wealth to good use by starting and funding a chain of maternity hospitals and orphanages around the continent.
He carried an alchemistic manuscript The Most Holy Trinosophia amongst others with him on his ill-fated journey to Rome and it is alleged that he wrote it.
Occultist Aleister Crowley believed Cagliostro was one of his previous incarnations.
Cultural references
Fiction
Catherine the Great wrote two skits lampooning Cagliostro in the guise of characters loosely based upon him.
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Alexandre Dumas, p;re used Cagliostro in several of his novels (especially in Joseph Balsamo and in Le Collier de la Reine where he claims to be over 3,000 years old and to have known Helen of Troy).
George Sand includes Cagliostro as a minor character in her historical novel, The Countess of Rudolstadt (1843).
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy wrote the supernatural love story Count Cagliostro where the Count brings to life a long dead Russian princess, materializing her from her portrait. The story was made into a 1984 Soviet TV movie Formula of Love.
Cagliostro is prominently figured in three stories by
Rafael Sabatini:
"The Lord of Time", "The Death Mask" and "The Alchemical Egg",
all of which are included in
Sabatini's collection
Turbulent Tales.
He is mentioned in the story The Sandman by ETA Hoffma
He is mentioned in the story
The Book and the Beast
by Robert Arthur, Jr.
A conjuring book attributed to him causes the gruesome death of any man foolish enough to examine it, until a fire destroys the book.
He is mentioned in the novel
It Happened in Boston?
by Russell H. Greenan.
The narrator is reading the life of Cagliostro when he has his first reverie.
He is mentioned in the novel
Kun Lun
by Kilburn Hall (2014)
where it is revealed that
Alessandro Cagliostro, Joseph and
Giuseppe Balsamo
are just a few of the names that
time traveler
Count St. Germain
has used throughout history.
He is mentioned in the book
The Red Lion-The Elixir of Eternal Life
by Maria Szepes
Friedrich Schiller
wrote an unfinished novel
Der Geisterseher (The Ghost-Seer)
between 1786 and 1789 about Cagliostro.
The Phantom comic book
featured Cagliostro as a character in the story
The Cagliostro Mystery
from 1988, written
by Norman Worker
and drawn
by Carlos Cruz.
The Kid Eternity comic book featured Cagliostro's risen spirit in issue 3 (1946).
In the DC Comics universe, Cagliostro is described as an immortal (JLA A
Cagliostro is a character in
Robert Anton Wilson's
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles.
Cagliostro is frequently alluded to in
Umberto Eco's novel
Foucault's Pendulum.
Mikhail Kuzmin
wrote a novella called
The Marvelous Life of Giuseppe Balsamo, Count Cagliostro (1916).
Cagliostro is a character in
Psychoshop,
a novel by Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny.
Josephine Balsamo, a descendant of Joseph Balsamo who calls herself Countess Cagliostro, appears in
Maurice Leblanc's
Arsene Lupin novels.
Cagliostro makes several cameo appearances as a vampire in
Kim Newman's
A
The manga
Rozen Maiden
reveals Count Cagliostro to be merely one of many different aliases adopted by the legendary dollmaker Rozen. He was shown to be in prison whittling wood.
There are numerous references to Cagliostro in
the detective novel
He Who Whispers
by John Dickson Carr
(aka Carter Dickson),
one of his Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries,
published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA) in 1946.
In this book, a French professor, Georges Antoine Rigaud, has written a history: Life of Cagliostro. Also an attempted murder committed in He Who Whispers is similar in technique to part of an initiation ceremony undergone by Cagliostro into the lodge of a secret society.
There is a passing and utterly inconsequential reference to Cagliostro in
Hilary Mantel's
1992 novel
A Place of Greater Safety.
Cagliostro is a character in the 1997 novel,
'Superstition'
by David Ambrose;
Cagliostro is an acquaintance of the fictional character, Adam Wyatt.
Cagliostro is a Playable character in
the Japanese Mobile game
Granblue Fantasy.
Cogliostro is a character in
Todd McFarlanes's comic saga
Spawn,
introduced to the series
by Neil Gaiman
to give greater depth to the curse of spawn.
Cagliostro was once a spawn of Hell bound to his duty to the daemon Malebolgia, and manages to free himself of the curse through alchemy and sorcery, teaching Spawn to do the same throughout the series.
He is often mentioned in the book
Napoleon's Pyramids
by William Dietrich
in co
In Glory Road, Star uses
"Balsamo"
as an alias, and refers to Giuseppe as her uncle.
Music
He appears as a principal character in the
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