Count and Baron Magri were born Primo and Ernesto Magri in Bologna, Italy. Their titles were granted them by Pope Pius IX after he was taken by them at one of their performances.
 
They eventually traveled to the United States were they were also known as Count Rosebud and Baron Littlefinger. There they traveled with Millie and Christine McCoy, the Two-headed Nightingale.
 
In 1885, two years after Tom Thumb's death, The Count married Lavinia Warren, Tom Thumb's widow. The Count was sometimes known as 'Mr's Tom Thumb's husband.' The three of them formed the Lilliputian Opera Company and traveled, performing in vaudeville companies. They had to work throughout their lives in order to maintain an extravagant lifestyle.
 
The Countess lived to the age of seventy-eight, dying in 1919. In 1920, the Count died.