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[Occult] [Cagliostro, Alessandro. (1743–1795)]. Theatre des Mystères - Original Entrance Ticket. French ticket, ca. 1800, giving entrance for two to the "Théâtre des Mystères," an evening of occult entertainment including "the resurrection of the dead, after the fashion of the famous Cagliostro. [...] Death coming out of his tomb. The judgment of Paris. Appearance of the Devil and the Owl," and other delights. Dated at the head with the French Revolutionary month of Nivôse, but with the day left blank. Signed at the foot. Printed on blue paper with a decorative border. Slight smudge at the lower right; overall fine. 4.25 x 6.5 inches (10.8 x 17 cm).
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo. Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician who became associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy and scrying. His reputation lingered for many decades after his death, but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) in 1833, who pronounced him the "Quack of Quacks".
[Occult] [Cagliostro, Alessandro. (1743–1795)]. Theatre des Mystères - Original Entrance Ticket. French ticket, ca. 1800, giving entrance for two to the "Théâtre des Mystères," an evening of occult entertainment including "the resurrection of the dead, after the fashion of the famous Cagliostro. [...] Death coming out of his tomb. The judgment of Paris. Appearance of the Devil and the Owl," and other delights. Dated at the head with the French Revolutionary month of Nivôse, but with the day left blank. Signed at the foot. Printed on blue paper with a decorative border. Slight smudge at the lower right; overall fine. 4.25 x 6.5 inches (10.8 x 17 cm).
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo. Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician who became associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy and scrying. His reputation lingered for many decades after his death, but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) in 1833, who pronounced him the "Quack of Quacks".