Joseph Basalmo, comte de Cagliostro

Creator
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815
Date
between 1800 and 1899
Subject
Scientists
Collection
Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Notes
ND Phot
Né à Palerme, en 1743, très habile charlatan, médecin et alchimiste. Impliqué dans l'affaire du Collier de la Reine pour avoir aidé Mme. de Lamotte à mystifier le cardinal de Rohan. Exilé pour ce fait à Rome, l'Inquisition le fit arrêter comme illuminé et franc-macon. Il mourut en prison, en 1795.
Postcard
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Identifier
P/C116.3 S

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