Monday, January 14, 2008
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA POST
CAGLIOSTRO, Alessandro Count 1743-1794) arch imposter, born at Palermo Joseph Balsamo. rudientary education, employed to read to monks during dinner. scandalized them by repeating the names and detailing adventures of the most notoriously profligate females of his native town. expelled from the convent and disowned. Signalized himself ingenuity as he contrived to commit crimes w/out detection. forgery, robbery, and finally murder, which he went to trial for, but escaped by bad evidence. on release, engaged a goldsmith to help find treasure, paying 60oz of gold for expences. on getting to cave, joseph, treasure was 6 devils, prepared beforehand, attacked goldsmith and beat him unconscious. left sicily, to greece, egypt, arabia, persia, rhodes(where he studies alchemy), malta, naples, rome, and venice. at rome married a beautiful, but unprincipled woman, w/ whom he traveled w/ underseveral names, through europe. In strassburg, made $ saying he could make the old young, helped by wife, lorenza feliciani who tho 20, declared she was 60 and had a sone in the dutch army, in paris he was implicated in the affair of the diamond necklace; and tho he escaped conviction by his impudent defence, he was imprisoned for other reasons in the bastille. on his liberation he went to england, where he succeeded well at first, but outwitted by some lawyers and confined for a while in the fleet. then back to europe and to rome, where he was arrested in 1789. tried and condemned to death for being a freemason, but sentence commuted to life. died in fortress prison of san leo in 1795. best account of his life in carlylse's miscellanies. damas's novel-memoirs of a physician, based on his life.
CAGNOLA, Luigi Marquis 1762-1833. b in milan, intended for law, but at 14, while at clementine college in rome, his passion for architecture too strong. in 1806, designed a triumphral arch for eugene beaucharnais's marriage to the princess of bavaria was to be wood, but so beautiful-done in marble-the arc de l'etoile in paris. also Porta di Marengo in Milan, the campanile at urgano and the chpel at santa marcellina in milan.
CAGLIOSTRO, Alessandro Count 1743-1794) arch imposter, born at Palermo Joseph Balsamo. rudientary education, employed to read to monks during dinner. scandalized them by repeating the names and detailing adventures of the most notoriously profligate females of his native town. expelled from the convent and disowned. Signalized himself ingenuity as he contrived to commit crimes w/out detection. forgery, robbery, and finally murder, which he went to trial for, but escaped by bad evidence. on release, engaged a goldsmith to help find treasure, paying 60oz of gold for expences. on getting to cave, joseph, treasure was 6 devils, prepared beforehand, attacked goldsmith and beat him unconscious. left sicily, to greece, egypt, arabia, persia, rhodes(where he studies alchemy), malta, naples, rome, and venice. at rome married a beautiful, but unprincipled woman, w/ whom he traveled w/ underseveral names, through europe. In strassburg, made $ saying he could make the old young, helped by wife, lorenza feliciani who tho 20, declared she was 60 and had a sone in the dutch army, in paris he was implicated in the affair of the diamond necklace; and tho he escaped conviction by his impudent defence, he was imprisoned for other reasons in the bastille. on his liberation he went to england, where he succeeded well at first, but outwitted by some lawyers and confined for a while in the fleet. then back to europe and to rome, where he was arrested in 1789. tried and condemned to death for being a freemason, but sentence commuted to life. died in fortress prison of san leo in 1795. best account of his life in carlylse's miscellanies. damas's novel-memoirs of a physician, based on his life.
CAGNOLA, Luigi Marquis 1762-1833. b in milan, intended for law, but at 14, while at clementine college in rome, his passion for architecture too strong. in 1806, designed a triumphral arch for eugene beaucharnais's marriage to the princess of bavaria was to be wood, but so beautiful-done in marble-the arc de l'etoile in paris. also Porta di Marengo in Milan, the campanile at urgano and the chpel at santa marcellina in milan.
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u left out the part where cagliostro was the first coach of the New England Patriots.
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: 12:58 PM
didn't even have football in my 1903 F EB, so's i doubt the orig C had anything to do with the damn pats.
wonder if i will find curling.
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wonder if i will find curling.
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