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Compendio della vita, e delle gesta di Giuseppe Balsamo, denominato il conte Cagliostro, che si è estratto dal processo contro di lui formato in Roma l'anno 1790. E che può servire di scorta per conoscere l'indole della setta de' Liberi muratori

Barberi, Giovanni, 1748-1821 · 1791 · Roma, Stamp. della Rev. Camera apostolica · 2 pictures

An 1791 Italian pamphlet published in Rome by the Apostolic Camera press, written by Giovanni Barberi, summarising the trial record against Giuseppe Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, and warning readers about the Freemasons. Its two pictures are small oval bust portraits of a man and a woman in powdered wigs, engraved with fine hatched shading, plus a decorative scrollwork tailpiece with a central urn of flowers, which a designer could use for period framing devices and oval portrait layouts.

Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795 · Freemasons

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