| Show cagliostro died in papal prison italian writer refutes tales of notorious impostors to 3 escape home flome plays and books have been written about cagliostro the lie arch im costor from rom palermo ermo whose real name wak gluseppe Bals aillo and tales have been woven about ills his reported ec escape from the hie prison of san leo of feltro ro an italian writer lulal has written au an interesting book boik based on material taken from the archives if pesaro and the prison these researches have hare thrown light on the last four and a halt years of the charlatans life cagliostro having duped half the world by his magic and hy by posing as tte me pr preather eaher of a miraculous moral regeneration wits was publicly exposed of Itus scottish physician pronounced his celebrated celebrate di food fond as unfit for dogs arol anil in ID carls was thrown into tile bastille after he had become to in rolled to in the affair of the hie necklace finally dually after long wunder wanderings Ings he was war arrested to ID the papal states and brought before tile the tribunal ot of the holy odlee lie he was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment hy by pope plus VI entered prison in 1709 cagliostro was talen to the fortress of yin san leo at Monte feltro and begat ills tern term of imprisonment on april 21 so great was als fame as an egypt lan ian free mason that he was considered capable of 0 evading imprisonment it by bungle means for this reason tie he was Vat hatched ched day and night and his efforts to ro escape paroled fruitless ula his failure allure to get tree free depressed him and at al times he became unconscious lie felt that his powers were waning as previously he had bad heen been able to escape from almost equally difficult situations lie he found that lie he could no longer dupe those around him early in 1712 1792 his mental faculties weakened ile he had tits of depression alternating with outbursts of rage during which lie would rave and call on the spirits of the dead to release him sometimes he be would tall fall as if be were wera dead ills jailers had a simple and efficacious way of ascertaining whether lie wits was feigning death this consisted of applying a red hot coal to the soles of his feet succumbed to stroke on august 23 1795 he had a stroke of apoplexy which affected his entire left side three days later inter he had a second stroke which was fatal when they applied the red hot coul coal tro did not move tie he was fifty two years old lind and had been in prison four years four our and five days includes in this volume many documents relating to Cag carlios lios troa fros detention in tills this fortress the governor of the prison sent reports about the prisoner to the cardinal secretary of state when cagliostro Cagl lostro died a death certificate wits was issued by the governor and sent to the papal legate at pesaro Ie saro |
