Gustavo Rol

He was also an amateur painter and his work was featured in exhibitions at the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli and the Guido Costa Projects.

[2] While in Marseille during 1925-1926, he encountered a person who showed him some card tricks, triggering an interest in magical and paranormal phenomena.

He pursued deeper spiritual studies and had an experience in Paris of which he wrote in his diary: "I discovered a tremendous law that links the color green, the musical fifth, and heat.

He engaged in various demonstrations of his supposed mystical powers, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and other psychic or magical feats.

Toward the later part of his life, and after his death, Rol was a focal point of debate in Italy between skeptics and advocates of parapsychology.