San Marino. Magician Gabriel studies the escape from Cagliostro’s cell
Gabriel spent the night in Cagliostro’s cell to study the escape
“It can be done!”. Word of Gabriel, the illusionist who continues to amaze with his extraordinary feats. Only three words that open a window on the mystery. Gabriel pronounced them at 7.30 yesterday morning, when he came out of the cell in the fortress of San Leo where exactly 230 years ago Giuseppe Balsamo, better known as the Count of Cagliostro, was imprisoned. A narrow room of ten square meters in which the prisoner was lowered through a trap door in the ceiling, with a small window closed by a triple series of bars from which light barely filters. The illusionist spent the whole night within those four walls. When the famous adventurer and esotericist was imprisoned there by the Inquisition Tribunal, many thought or feared that he would be able to escape thanks to his magical powers. He tried in vain for 4 long years, until the day he died. Today Gabriel, after a long period of study and preparation, has decided on what Cagliostro did not succeed: the escape from the cell in the Rocca di San Leo. (…)
Article taken from The Information of San Marino