{"id":7,"date":"2012-08-31T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contedicagliostro.com\/site\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2014-05-11T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T18:10:42","slug":"storia-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.contedicagliostro.com\/site\/storia-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Storia &#8211; History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contedicagliostro.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/contedicagliostrohistory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-167\" src=\"http:\/\/contedicagliostro.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/contedicagliostrohistory.jpg\" alt=\"contedicagliostrohistory\" width=\"960\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.contedicagliostro.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/contedicagliostrohistory.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.contedicagliostro.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/contedicagliostrohistory-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.contedicagliostro.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/contedicagliostrohistory-150x46.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.contedicagliostro.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/contedicagliostrohistory-660x206.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"960\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"445\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 30px;\">Chi era Giuseppe Balsamo, conte di Cagliostro?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Giuseppe Balsamo nasce a Palermo il 2 giugno del 1743 nella famiglia di Pietro Balsamo e Felice Falconieri, entrambi nobili e di illustri famiglie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Ancora in tenera et\u00e0 perde il padre; questo triste evento e le condizioni economiche in cui si trova la famiglia spingono la madre ad affidare il ragazzo agli zii materni, proprietari di una farmacia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Gli zii decidono di fargli proseguire gli studi nel Seminario di S.Rocco, dove il Padre Generale del Convento dei Benfratelli di Caltagirone si prende cura di lui;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">suo punto di riferimento e maestro \u00e8 il frate aromatario, speziale del convento, dal quale apprende i primi elementi di chimica, botanica farmaceutica e medicinale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">La vivacit\u00e0 del ragazzo sono incontrollabili; burle, ingegnose trovate, racconti e piccole truffe, che sfruttano con maestria le sue doti di sensitivo e veggente si susseguono velocemente tanto da indurre il giovane a lasciare Palermo per seguire il proprio destino.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;Vedo quello che altri non vedono, sento quello che altri non sentono.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> La magia, la follia del soprannaturale mi possiede, devo confrontarmi con il mondo, libero e senza confini scoprir\u00f2 i perch\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;Il primo incontro significativo per la sua crescita fu con Althotas che defin\u00ec maestro e con lui inizi\u00f2 la pratica delle scienze occulte e lo studio del Libro dei morti dell&#8217;Antico Egitto.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Viaggiano in Asia minore, Arcipelago Greco, Egitto, Malta.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> A Medina sono accolti dal Gran Maestro Pinto De Fonseca e nel suo laboratorio approfondiscono studi di medicina ed alchimia.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Athotas muore in viaggio lasciando il giovane Cagliostro solo nel gran teatro del mondo.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Arrivato a Roma nella seconda met\u00e0 del diciottesimo secolo incontra Lorenza Feliciani, detta Serafina, che sposer\u00e0 il 20 Aprile 1768.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Dopo il matrimonio inizia un periodo di viaggi nelle corte d&#8217;Europa invitato per la sua fama di guaritore, veggente e alchimista.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> &#8220;Ho scelto di alleviare le sofferenze degli uomini e mai ho speculato sulla pi\u00f9 nobile e pi\u00f9 consolante delle arti.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Un&#8217;attrazione, un impulso irresistibile mi ha sempre portato verso l&#8217;essere sofferente; le mie ricerche, i miei studi sono stati costantemente impiegati a favore dei bisognosi.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Ai ricchi do rimedi e consigli, ai poveri, rimedi e denari.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> &#8220;Di ritorno in Italia Cagliostro si ferma a Napoli dove impartisce lezioni di chimica e studia con il cavaliere d&#8217;Aquino i libri di Althotas.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Successivamente parte per Marsiglia, Alicate, Siviglia, l&#8217;Inghilterra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">La presenza di Cagliostro e Serafina in ogni citt\u00e0 suscita clamore ed ammirazione: lui per i suoi poteri, la moglie bellezza e fascino.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;Mi basta guardare negli occhi un ammalato perch\u00e9 una luce si faccia nella mia mente: vede il suo male e la sicurezza di vincerlo passa dal mio spirito al suo.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Nel 1777 a Londra viene accolto nella loggia &#8220;Esperance&#8221; con la qualifica di Apprendista, Compagno e Maestro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Dopo il coinvolgimento in una truffa parte da Londra e giunge all&#8217;Aia dove fonda una loggia.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Successivamente a Varsavia insieme al Principe Poniski si dedica agli studi e alla ricerca alchemica.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Inizia un periodo di grande propagazione del suo pensiero e dell&#8217;anima della sua cultura e religione al quale si dedica con passione e convinzione.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Il Gran Cofto (cos\u00ec si fa chiamare come maestro della sua loggia) abolisce per primo la pena di morte dal rito massonico ed espande il potere nella loggia anche alle donne.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Serafina guider\u00e0 la prima loggia Ginecea di Isis, composta da sole donne, come Gran Maestra Regina di Saba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Nel 1784, la sera del 26 dicembre a Lione prende vita la Loggia Madre del Rito Egizio della Prudenza Trionfante.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> La citt\u00e0 di Strasburgo vive il suo momento di maggior affluenza e notoriet\u00e0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;il mondo intero parla dei miei prodigi ma non c&#8217;\u00e8 alcun prodigio, c&#8217;\u00e8 solo la conoscenza delle componenti della natura:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> il fuoco, l&#8217;acqua, la terra, l&#8217;aria; degli stati della natura: solidi, liquidi, morbidi, volatili; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">il penetrare l&#8217;attrazione e la repulsione del moto e della stasi e quelle sue forze; l&#8217;energia magnetica, elettrica, luminosa, sensibile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Tutto ci\u00f2 \u00e8 soggetto a tre principi: la conoscenza, la logica e la volont\u00e0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;A Parigi viene ospitato dal cardinale Rohan, a lui grato per la guarigione del fratello.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">La sua fama \u00e8 all&#8217;apice; la sua immagine \u00e8 raffigurata sui ventagli delle dame.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Conteso tra tutti i salotti parigini, i partecipanti richiedono sempre pi\u00f9 non solo la sua presenza ma nuovi prodigi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">La decadenza arriva con l&#8217;affare della collana della regina Maria Antonietta.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> L&#8217;arresto del cardinale Rohan coincide con la sua perquisizione, tutto viene saccheggiato e distrutto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Cagliostro e Serafina vengono portati alla Bastiglia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Il processo assolve pienamente Cagliostro condannando Rohan ma \u00e8 costretto a lasciare la Francia iniziando un lungo viaggio verso Roma con la speranza di avere l&#8217;approvazione papale per costituire il Rito Egizio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">La Chiesa non l&#8217;accoglie e lo processa a Castel Sant&#8217;Angelo mentre Serafina \u00e8 condotta nel Convento di S.\u00a0Apollonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">La condanna a morte viene commutata per ordine del Papa Pio Vi in carcere a vita da scontarsi nella fortezza papalina di San Leo, in Romagna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">E&#8217; il suo ultimo viaggio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Prima di partire definitivamente da Roma \u00e8 costretto ad assistere in Piazza della Minerva al pubblico rogo dei suoi emblemi, dei suoi strumenti, dei suoi scritti e simboli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Muore il 26 Agosto 1795 a San Leo, sepolto in terra sconsacrata.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Leggende, ombre e luci, avvolgono ancora il Conte di Cagliostro, figura complessa e inquietante, tanto da tornare alla memoria e essere celebrato in varie occasioni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">I suoi studi, il suo pensiero, le sue testimonianze di vita sono l&#8217;eredit\u00e0 di un personaggio che ha fatto storia e ancora oggi tramite la sua arte \u00e8 tra di noi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Cagliostro erborista e guaritore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">A Strasburgo Cagliostro conobbe lo studioso Kaspar Lavater al quale avrebbe confidato le sue conoscenze scientifiche.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Filippetti, biografo del Conte, ci informa che le sue conoscenze andavano ben oltre la semplice &#8216;pranoterapia&#8217; e che potrebbero riallacciarsi alla magia intuitiva dei Rosacroce, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">i quali riprendevano le idee del pensiero rinascimentale fondato sulla corrispondenza di tutte le cose nel grande ordine universale e sulla possibilit\u00e0 di conoscere il pensiero divino nell&#8217;osservazione di quest&#8217;ordine&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Paracelso amava dire che la Medicina non \u00e8 solo scienza ma anche arte, non \u00e8 solo somministrazione di medicine e impiastri ma compresnione dei processi che regolano la vita.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Eppure Paracelso fu rispettato e considerato un Grande del suo Tempo.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> Come mai Cagliostro non fu tante volte compreso dai contemporanei?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Il suo aspetto ci viene tramandato come quello di un uomo dal forte carisma,dagli occhi di fuoco, dai gesti amabili, dedito a curare i malati diseredati, a cui spesso elargiva denaro per comprarsi da mangiare e accettando solo rimborsi dai pazienti pi\u00f9 abbienti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Alcune descrizioni parlano di 15.000 malati sanati, che si prostravano ai suoi piedi colmi di riconoscenza e dai quali veniva considerato un &#8216;dio&#8217;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"> (dalla lettera del Conte di Vergenne).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Il dr.\u00a0Haven, uno dei biografi che ne d\u00e0 una visione pi\u00f9 positiva, ce lo pone come completamente dedito alla cura degli ammalati:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">la sua giornata iniziava al mattino molto presto; con la visita dei malati e proseguiva nel pomeriggio e a tarda notte negli studi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Dormiva poche ore, spesso vestito e su una poltrona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Guarigioni istantanee di malattie che spesso erano considerate mortali avevano fatto di Cagliostro il personaggio pi\u00f9 noto e amato in tutta Europa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Cagliostro usava elementi di origine naturale per costruire i composti di cui si serviva e insieme la forza della parola che agiva come una leva sulla volont\u00e0 dell&#8217;ammalato.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Egli alluse talvolta di essere in possesso di Saperi Superiori e segreti e fondamentalmente asseriva l&#8217;importanza della sfera spirituale nella guarigione fisica, anche sulla scia degli esperimenti sull&#8217;ipnosi di Mesmer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Condensamento della linfa e corruzione degli umori del corpo portavano ad ammalarsi e Paracelso stesso aveva affermato di usare sia le erbe che i metalli (mondo vegetale e minerale)per curare le varie malattie, al fine di ritornare in perfetta armonia con l&#8217;Universo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Cagliostro stesso, interrogato da Levater sui segreti della sua terapia, aveva risposto che i suoi strumenti erano &#8220;Herbis Verbis set Lapidibus (piante, parole e minerali)&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Il pi\u00f9 noto preparato di Cagliostro fu l&#8217;ELIXIR di Lunga Vita&#8217;, che alla fine degli &#8217;40 del Novecento veniva ancora preparato in molte Farmacie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">La ricetta -che ritroviamo uguale in un &#8220;Manuale pratico di farmacia&#8221;, di V.Celli (Genova,1929) cos\u00ec si costituiva: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Aloe, agarico bianco, mirra, genziana rad, rabarbaro rizoma, zafferano, zedoaria rizoma, alcool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Cagliostro era noto anche per le polveri &#8220;rinfrescanti&#8221; con cui comp\u00ec delle guarigioni miracolose, come quella del Marchese la Salle affetto da cancrena e quella del fratello del cardinale di Rhoan, dato per moribondo da tutti medici.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Anche l'&#8221;Acqua Virginale&#8221;, un tonico lattiginoso al benzoino, \u00e8 una ricetta interessante, precorritrice dei moderni prodotti per l&#8217;elasticit\u00e0 e la tonicit\u00e0 della pelle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Il vino egiziano, un vino aromatico ispirato all&#8217;immaginario esotico e orientaleggiante della massoneria e del culto egizio, \u00e8 un esempio di come Giuseppe Balsamo non miri solo alla conservazione della salute dell&#8217;uomo ma anche al potenziamento delle funzionalit\u00e0 biologiche.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Le qualit\u00e0 rinvigorenti e afrodisiache di questa bevanda erano famose in tutta Europa tanto da essere uno dei prodotti di maggior successo del Conte di Cagliostro.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"445\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 30px; font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"><strong>Who was Giuseppe Balsamo, Count of Cagliostro?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Giuseppe Balsamo was born in Palermo on 2nd of June1743 from Pietro Balsamo and Felice Falconieri, both coming from aristocratic families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">When he was still very young, his father died; this mourning event and some financial straits convince his mother to entrust the child to the maternal uncles, owner of a pharmacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Uncles let the boy goes on over his education at S.Rocco Seminary, where the Prior Father of Benefratelli&#8217;s Monastery in Caltagirone takes care of him;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">his teacher and focus is an herbalist monk, from which he learns his first knowledges about chemistry, pharmaceutical botany and medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">The liveliness of the young Giuseppe is overpowering: tricks, ingenious initiatives, telling tales and small frauds, which exploit his skills as medium and clairvoyant, follow one after the other really fast and push the boy to leave Palermo and to follow his own fate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">&#8220;I can see what others cannot see, I can hear what others cannot hear.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> Magic, madness of supernatural possess me, I must confront myself with the World, I&#8217;ll discover all the Whys unchained and narrowless&#8221;The first significant encounter of his life was with Althotas, which he elected as his master:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">with him he started to study the occult disciplines and the Book of the Dead from the ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> They travel accross Asia Minor, Greek islands, Egypt, Malta.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> In Medina the Gran Maestro Pinto De Fonseca welcomes them and in his laboratory they deepen some experiments about medicine and alchemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Althotas dies during the journey, leaving the young Cagliostro all alone on the big stage of the world.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> He moved to Rome in the second half of the XVIII century and there he meets Lorenza Feliciani, called Serafina, which he marries on 20th of April 1768.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">After the marriage, he starts to travel across the courts of all Europe as a guest invited for his fame of healer, clairvoyant and alchemist.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> &#8220;I have decided on lighten sufferings of mankind and I never speculated in the noblest and most consoling among the arts.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> An attraction, an irresistible appeal guided me to the achings since ever;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> my researches and my quests were all spent in advantage of the needies;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> to the rich ones I give remedies and advises, to the poor ones remedies and money&#8221;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> Coming back to Italy, Caglisotro stops at Neaples, where gives lessons of chemistry and studies Althotas&#8217;s books with a friend, Cavaliere d&#8217;Arpino.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Subsequently, he takes off for Marseille, Alicante, Sevilla and Britain.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> The presence of Serafina and Caglistro arouses everywere clamour and wonder for the occult powers by him and for the charming fascination by her.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">&#8220;Looking in the eyes of a sick one it&#8217;s enought for me to enlighten my mind:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">he can see his illness and the certainty of defeat it passes through me to him&#8221; In 1777 he was received as Apprentice, Companion and Master in the masonic lodge &#8220;Esperance&#8221; of London.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> After his involvement in a fraud, he leaves London and comes to l&#8217;Aia, where he founds his own lodge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Subsequently, he comes to Varsavia, where he dedicate himself to alchemic researches with Prince Poninski.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> A period of big diffusion of his philosophy, spiritualism and turn of mind begins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">The Grand Cofto (Cagliostro coins this title for himself as master of his lodge) is the first who abolishes the death sentence from the masonic rites and allows women to function ruling.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> Serafina shall lead the first feminie lodge dedicated to the egyptian goddess Isis as Grand Mistress Queen of Saba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">In the late evening of 26th of December 1784 in Lione rises the Mother Lodge based on the Egyptian Rite of the Triumphant Prudence.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> In that period the city of Strasbourg achieves its best perstige and stardome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">the whole world chats about my prodigies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">but there is no prodigy at all, just awareness of the natural elements:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">fire, water, earth, air; of the states of the matter:<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> solid, liquid, fluid, gaseous; mastery on the forces which rule upon the attraction and the revulsion, on stasis and motion; magnetic, electric, wave, sensitve energies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">All that is submitted to just three principles: knowledge, logic and will.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> &#8221; He comes to Paris as guest of Rohan Cardinal, who was really grateful to Cagliostro for his brother&#8217;s recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Giuseppe Balsamo&#8217;s prestige is at its best: his silhouette is even on ladys&#8217; fans! He is continuously contested by the most prestigious parisienne salons, which request his feature and new prodigies at every turn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">His decay comes with queen Marie Antoinette&#8217;s collier affair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Meanwhile Rohan Cardinal is arrested, Cagliostro&#8217;s home is searched and all his stuff destroyed and predated.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> Cagliostro and Serafina are get to the Basteille jail.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> The trial sentences Rohan and exonerates Cagliostro, who decides to leave France and moving toward Rome, wishing the Pope could allow the Egyptian Rite&#8217;s restoration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">The Church fails his request and tries him at Castel Sant&#8217;Angelo, meanwhile Serafina is locked in S.Apollonia&#8217;s convent.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> The death sentence is commuted by pope Pio VI in lifetime detention at San Leo fortress, in Romagna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">It&#8217;s his last trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Before leaving, he is forced to watch his stuff and books burning in Piazza della Minerva.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> He dies on 26th of August 1795 at San Leo and he is buried in deconsecrate ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Legends, shadows and lights still surround Count of Cagliostro, complex and unnerving figure, commemorated and celebrated in many occasions still in these days.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> His searches, philosophy and path are a present legacy today and keep alive his character among us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">During his stay in Strasbourg, Cagliostro met the natural scientist Kaspar Levater, who should entrust his scientific knowledges to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Filippetti, one of the Cagliostro&#8217;s biographers, acquaints us that these knowleges were far far beyond simple pranotherapy and they should be connected with the perceptual magic of Rosacroce, who who recover a renaissance concept founded on a sort of correspondence of all elements of Nature in a big universal order and the chance of bottoming God&#8217;s wills exploring this order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Paracelso used to say Medicine is not just a science, but also an art, not just administering medicines and poultices, but also awareness about processes which rule life on earth.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">and yet Paracelso was really estimated and considered a great personality of his time.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Why Caglisotro was so often misunderstood by his coevals?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">It&#8217;s handed down he looked like a strong man, gifted with an enormous charisma, burning eyed, nice mannered, totally given to heal the sick ones and the dispossesed, who used to give some money to and take compensations just by the most wealthy patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Some portrayings talk about 15.000 healed, who bowed down before Cagliostro, considered as a divinity ( from Vergenne Count&#8217;s mails).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Dr.\u00a0Haven, one of the biographers which introduce Cagliostro in the most positive way, describes him as totally devoted to taking care of sick ones:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">his working-day started very early in the morning visiting his patients and carried on studying in the late afternoon and evening, &#8217;til deep night.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">He slept just few hours, sited on an armchair and still dressed up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Instantaneous recoveries of many diseases considered lethal at that time made Cagliostro the most popular and beloved character across the whole Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Cagliostro exploited all natural components to make up his compounds joined to the power of speech, which appealed to the patient&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> He sometimes alluded to be in possess of extrasensitive and occult abilities and he often underlined the relevance of spirituality in the healing process, also following in the Mesmer&#8217;s trials footsteps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Condensation of the lymphatic liquids and profligacy of the body&#8217;s humors were responsible of the illness and Paracelso himself asserted to use herbs and metals (vegetable and mineral kingdoms) to heal different kind of pathologies, in order to reunite the patient to the universal harmony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">Besides, Cagliostro, questioned by Levater about his therapies&#8217; secrets, replied his instruments were &#8220;Herbis, Verbis et Lapidibus&#8221;(Herbs, Speech and Minerals).<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> The most popular Cagliostro&#8217;s compound ever was the Long Life Elixir, that was still made up at the end of the 1940&#8217;s in some pharmacies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">This recipe- which can find identical in a &#8220;manual of practice pharmacy&#8221; by V.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\"> Celli (Genova, 1929)- was made up as following: aloe, white agarico, myrrh, gentian, rhubarb, saffron, zedoaria, alcohol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', sans-serif; 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