The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro The Greatest Enchanter of the Eighteenth Century |
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| Author:
| McCalman, Iain |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7322-7397-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 2003 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Australia
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| Imprint: | Fourth Estate |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
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Book Description:
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'This rich, fantastic, devilishly romantic book about one of the great flim-flam men of history is quite brilliant - utterly absorbing, bewilderingly clever and, like the man himself, a charming puzzle from beginning to end.' - Simon Winchester, author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne.Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th-century Sicilian who became a magician, a mystic, a healer, a Freemason, swindler and last, but not least, a pornographer. He was famous throughout...
More Description'This rich, fantastic, devilishly romantic book about one of the great flim-flam men of history is quite brilliant - utterly absorbing, bewilderingly clever and, like the man himself, a charming puzzle from beginning to end.' - Simon Winchester, author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne.Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th-century Sicilian who became a magician, a mystic, a healer, a Freemason, swindler and last, but not least, a pornographer. He was famous throughout Europe, and so popular in France that his imprisonment for allegedly stealing a diamond necklace from Marie Antoinette fanned the flames of revolution ...The Count was so controversial, he became the central figure in both Goethe's Faust, Part One and Mozart's The Magic Flute.His story is told through the eyes of seven of his contemporaries, including Casanova, Goethe and Catherine the Great.