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Cagliostro is a character in
Robert Anton Wilson's
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles.
Cagliostro is frequently alluded to in
Umberto Eco's novel
Foucault's Pendulum.
Mikhail Kuzmin
wrote a novella called
The Marvelous Life of Giuseppe Balsamo, Count Cagliostro (1916).
Cagliostro is a character in
Psychoshop,
a novel by Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny.
Josephine Balsamo, a descendant of Joseph Balsamo who calls herself Countess Cagliostro, appears in
Maurice Leblanc's
Arsene Lupin novels.
Cagliostro makes several cameo appearances as a vampire in
Kim Newman's
Anno Dracula novels.
The manga
Rozen Maiden
reveals Count Cagliostro to be merely one of many different aliases adopted by the legendary dollmaker Rozen. He was shown to be in prison whittling wood.
There are numerous references to Cagliostro in
the detective novel
He Who Whispers
by John Dickson Carr
(aka Carter Dickson),
one of his Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries,
published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA) in 1946.
In this book, a French professor, Georges Antoine Rigaud, has written a history: Life of Cagliostro. Also an attempted murder committed in He Who Whispers is similar in technique to part of an initiation ceremony undergone by Cagliostro into the lodge of a secret society.
There is a passing and utterly inconsequential reference to Cagliostro in
Hilary Mantel's
1992 novel
A Place of Greater Safety.
Cagliostro is a character in the 1997 novel,
'Superstition'
by David Ambrose;
Cagliostro is an acquaintance of the fictional character, Adam Wyatt.
Cagliostro is a Playable character in
the Japanese Mobile game
Granblue Fantasy.
Cogliostro is a character in
Todd McFarlanes's comic saga
Spawn,
introduced to the series
by Neil Gaiman
to give greater depth to the curse of spawn.
Cagliostro was once a spawn of Hell bound to his duty to the daemon Malebolgia, and manages to free himself of the curse through alchemy and sorcery, teaching Spawn to do the same throughout the series.
He is often mentioned in the book
Napoleon's Pyramids
by William Dietrich
in connection with Freemasons and ancient Egyptian artifacts.
In Glory Road, Star uses
"Balsamo"
as an alias, and refers to Giuseppe as her uncle.
Music
He appears as a principal character in the
1794
opera
Le congres des rois,
a collaborative work of 12 composers.
The French composer Victor Dourlen (1780-1864) composed the first act to Cagliostro, ou Les illumines which premiered on 27 November 1810.
The second and third act were composed by Anton Reicha (1770-1836).
The Irish composer William Michael Rooke (1794-1847) wrote an unperformed work Cagliostro.
Adolphe Adam
wrote the opera
comique Cagliostro
which premiered on 10 February 1844.
Albert Lortzing
wrote in 1850
the libretto for a comic opera in three acts,
Cagliostro,
but did not compose any music for it.
Johann Strauz (Sohn) wrote the operetta Cagliostro in Wien (Cagliostro in Vienna) in 1875.
The French composer Claude Terrasse (1867-1923) wrote Le Cagliostro which premiered in 1904.
The Polish composer Jan Maklakiewicz (1899-1954) wrote the ballet in three scenes Cagliostro w Warszawie which premiered in 1938.
The Romanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu (1944-) wrote the 1975 work Le miroir de Cagliostro for choir, flute and percussion.
The American composer John Zorn (1953-) composed Cagliostro for solo viola in 2015. The performer uses two bows in the right hand to play on all four strings at once throughout the work.