Joseph Pinetti

The Knight Joseph Pinetti or Giuseppe Pinetti (1750-1800), born with Orbetello (in Tuscan, in Italy) and died in Russia, still called the Professor de Natural Magie , became famous for the use of complicated apparatuses, its escapes and its turns of Mentalisme.

Its life

This magician of the court of Louis XVI then, under the Directory and the first Empire, author of the work Physical Recreations (1784), contributed to diversify the turns of magic, to create new effects. It left the magic the street to insert it in the theaters, in particular in its theater of the Menu-Pleasures of the King, Poissonnière suburb. In its cabinet of curiosities , it presented and mixed scientific experiments (such as revealing an electric spark between the terminals of a excitateu…) and turn of magic (to reveal an engraving in a mirror…).

It was known for the richness of its crews. It presented its turns to different course from Europe (in London, Berlin, Paris…).

It is quoted in the memories of Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, but is regarded as a charlatan. It would have been continued by the revenge on the one of the inspirers of Robert Houdin, the count Edmont de Grisy, is become famous under the name of Torrini. Robert Houdin tells that the Pinetti knight would have led Edmont de Grisy, then at his beginnings of escamotor, to ridicule itself at the time of a representation. Edmont de Grisy, furious against Pinetti, would have assembled a competitor spectacle and, by city downtown, would have preceded it, continued, increasingly more sumptuous, of Plaisance, Crémone, Mantoue, Vicence, Padoue, Venice, until Pinetti is resigned to fold luggage …

Robert-Houdin indicates that the Pinetti knight died of a long and cruel disease . He would have been reduced to most dreadful misery (and) died in the village of Bartitchoff, in Volhinie, chz a lord who had collected it by compassion.

Its work

Physical Recreations , Joseph Pinetti, Paris 1784 (°).

(°) This work, considered as a treated retraction , was republished in:

physical white Magic and recreations, Joseph Pinetti and Henri Descremps , integral republication of three books ( Revealed White Magic (1784) of Henri Decremps, Physical Recreations (1784) of Joseph Pinetti, Supplement with the Revealed White Magic (1785) of Henri Decremps), annotated by Philippe the St. Lawrence, Editions Deluxe Joker, 1998. This Work gives a biography detailed on Joseph Pinetti and Henri Descremps, realized by Philippe the St. Lawrence.

Retraction of the shirt

The treaty of Pinetti is several times quoted by Robert-Houdin, for example for the description of the turn of the retraction of the shirt on the person who carries it

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