Giuseppe Balsamo was a part-time peddler who worked under Comte de Saint-Germain. Known by the name Cagliostro, he first gained notoriety in Russia for selling perfumes. He is described as aloof and debaucherous with a taste for fine liquor wherever he goes. Cagliostro refers to his life as a "comedy on stage" and has plans to create a "high class tragedy" instead of the usual.