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Giuseppe Balsamo
Cagliostro
June 8 (2?), 1743 - August 26,1795

Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer. He claimed to be the son of the Prince and Princess of the Anatolian Christian Kingdom of Trebizond, orphaned and reared by the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta.
Founder of Egyptian Freemasonry in 1777, he had a considerably larger impact on the popular imagination than he had on Freemasonry.
His 1776 initiation into a London lodge attached to the irregular Rite of Strict Observance is undocumented; he may have been initiated in Germany. He is known to have attended the Lodge of Antiquity in London on 1 November 1786.
He was prosecuted in the affair of the diamond necklace which involved Marie Antoinette and Prince Louis de Rohan, and was held in the Bastille for nine months but finally acquitted, when no evidence could be found connecting him to the affair.
Magician, healer, necromancer and self-proclaimed chief of the Rosicrucians, Cagliostro never admitted to being Giuseppe Balsamo except while questioned by the Inquisition.
Arrested in Rome by the Catholic Inquisition on 27 December 1789, he was convicted of forming societies and conventicles of Freemasonry and sentenced to death. This was commuted to perpetual imprisonment—four years later he died in the dungeons of the castle of St. Leo.

Initiated: 12 April 1776 (1777 ?)
Loge d'Espérance No. 289 (369?) London

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