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[[Ernesto Patrizio di Castiglione]] (1845 - ), born at Savigliana, Italy, toured the world as a magician as "Count Ernest Patrizio".
 
[[Ernesto Patrizio di Castiglione]] (1845 - ), born at Savigliana, Italy, toured the world as a magician as "Count Ernest Patrizio".
  
At the age of eighteen, he became an officer of artillery and fought in the war between Austria and Italy. He was captured  and imprisoned in an Austria.  Patrizio displayed his skill as a conjurer to avoid unskilled labor before the Governor of the fortress and his staff. He ended up being  treated more as a guest than a prisoner of war, and became a great favorite with the Austrian officers. <ref>History of Conjuring and Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans (1928)</ref>  
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At the age of eighteen, he became an officer of artillery and fought in the war between Austria and Italy. He was captured  and imprisoned in an Austria.  Patrizio displayed his skill as a conjurer to avoid unskilled labor before the Governor of the fortress and his staff. He ended up being  treated more as a guest than a prisoner of war, and became a great favorite with the Austrian officers. <ref>The History of Conjuring and Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans (1928)</ref>  
  
 
He decided to make magic his profession after being release in 1867. He traveled through Mexico and visited the United States twice (in New York in 1890).  [[D'Alvini]] joined Patrizio, and they toured South America together. <ref> Around the world with a magician and a juggler By Hardin J. Burlingame (1891)</ref>
 
He decided to make magic his profession after being release in 1867. He traveled through Mexico and visited the United States twice (in New York in 1890).  [[D'Alvini]] joined Patrizio, and they toured South America together. <ref> Around the world with a magician and a juggler By Hardin J. Burlingame (1891)</ref>

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Ernesto Patrizio di Castiglione (1845 - ), born at Savigliana, Italy, toured the world as a magician as "Count Ernest Patrizio".

At the age of eighteen, he became an officer of artillery and fought in the war between Austria and Italy. He was captured and imprisoned in an Austria. Patrizio displayed his skill as a conjurer to avoid unskilled labor before the Governor of the fortress and his staff. He ended up being treated more as a guest than a prisoner of war, and became a great favorite with the Austrian officers. [1]

He decided to make magic his profession after being release in 1867. He traveled through Mexico and visited the United States twice (in New York in 1890). D'Alvini joined Patrizio, and they toured South America together. [2]

Patrizio was the first to specialize in cannon ball catching (shot from a cannon) which attracted public attention. When P. T. Barnum engaged Patrizio for his show it was the Cannon Ball Feature that was publicized.[3]

It was widely rumored that Patrizio met with financial ruin and died poverty-stricken in South America. Although Dr. Don Pablo de Areny de Plandolit in his book, Las Maravillas de la Magia Moderna (1913), tells of Patrizio dying in a house of the Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona, Spain.[4]

References

  1. The History of Conjuring and Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans (1928)
  2. Around the world with a magician and a juggler By Hardin J. Burlingame (1891)
  3. Count Ernest Patrizio and his Magic Wonders by Milbourne Christopher, Sphinx March 1950.
  4. "The Count Patrizio in Mexico in 1877" by Enrique Jimenez Martinez, Journal of Magic History Vol. 02 August, 1980