Who is Cagliostro?

Alexandre Dumas, père 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).

Did Cagliostro have a castle?

No, Cagliostro didn’t have a castle. The Castle of Cagliostro is a Japanese animated movie in the Lupin III series. Released in 1979, it was the second in the series, and was co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Was Giuseppe Cagliostro a great Masonic prophet?

Cagliostro might have become the prophet of the Masonic movement or a revolutionary leader, but Cagliostro couldn’t rise to be the great, the grand Cagliostro burdened with Balsamo’s history or reputation.

Was Cagliostro Balsamo?

Trowbridge reconsiders Cagliostro’s legacy and writes a more rational and consequently more positive book, on the assumption that the negatives things which had been written up until then simply followed the tide of prejudice. He concludes that Cagliostro wasn’t Balsamo.