Cagliostro: Maligned Freemason and Rosicrucian

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Summary: A Tragic Life Maligned by the Media and Dishonorable People
Review: According to Trowbridge's investigations of Cagliostro, he was a compassionate man with a gift of healing. He never charged for his medicinal cures and treated the poor as well as the rich. He also had great psychic abilites and was a staunch supporter of Freedom and Freemasonery during the time of revolution in Europe. I couldn't help but be depressed when I read how horrible the media and the press of his day were to him. It reminded me of the times we are living in now...how our media and press have just lost all sense of reasoning and are scandalous and malicious in their barbs and words. Just like in Cagliostro's time when people were fighting for freedom the press crucified him... I found similarity in our "current war on terror" and the unmerciful attacks from the media on America's struggle in protecting our freedoms. Over and over again Trowbridge sites examples where Cagliostro's character was attacked, lied about and maligned....history just keeps repeating itself. This book even made me squirm with thoughts about my own book I have written and the fact that someday somewhere some media person with the power of the pen or televsion might set out to destroy or discredit my reputation and teachings. If nothing else this book reminds me how little humanity has changed. This book documents the injustices and deliberate persecutions of a good and gentle man and his wife. In the end it utterly destroyed them. Trowbridge also reveals to the reader the wonderful and amazing abilites this man had as he was often compared to the Comte de Saint Germain. Besides a new historical account of the man it is a revealing look into human nature during the 1700s when so many were fighting and striving for independence and freedom.

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Summary: A controversial caracther under the spotlight of History
Review: For many years Cagliostro has been confused with Joseph Balsamo, a notorious Sicilian scoundrel. His life has been disparaged in such a blemishing way that it has been hard to find out what is true and what are his enemy's reviles. Through the spotlight of Trowbridge one is able to shed some lights on this uncommon character. He is no saint, but he is far from being the devilish creature his enemies named him. A book worth reading!

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Summary: A controversial figure in the spotlight
Review: Most of the books that were written about Cagliostro labels him as the king of liars and a scoundrel. Due to several facts in his life, Cagliostro has been confounded with Joseph Balsamo, a Sicilian rascal. Trowbridge shows us in his fine book that its impossible that Cagliostro could have ever been Balsamo, even though he is quite straighforward to paint us a caracther that sometimes is brilliant and other times is a pathetic human being. It's worthwhile reading about such controversial figure brought to us by Trowbridge's spotlight.