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Definition of Count alessandro di cagliostro
1. Noun. Italian who was famous as a magician and alchemist (1743-1795).
Generic synonyms: Magician, Necromancer, Sorcerer, Thaumaturge, Thaumaturgist, Wizard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Count Alessandro Di Cagliostro
Literary usage of Count alessandro di cagliostro
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton (1887)
"... in a very diffuse essay on this adventurer, thus introduces him: ‘The Count
Alessandro di Cagliostro, Pupil of the sage ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"One such desirable second-best, perhaps the chief of all such, we have here found
in the Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Pupil of the Sage ..."
3. The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"He married Lorenza, the daughter of a girdle-maker of Rome, called himself the
count Alessandro di Cagliostro, and his wife the countess ..."
4. The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine by Charles Whitlock Moore (1865)
"... these latter ages has marked the world's history, we have found in the Count
Alessandro di Cagliostro, pupil of the sage ..."