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The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason

The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason

McCalman, Iain

Paperback

Historical FiguresGeneral World HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 0060006919
ISBN13: 9780060006914
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Apr 13 2004
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.38 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

Freemason ... Shaman ... Prophet ... Seducer ... Swindler ... Thief ... Heretic

Who was the mysterious Count Cagliostro?

Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a dangerous charlatan. Internationally acclaimed historian Iain McCalman documents how Cagliostro crossed paths -- and often swords -- with the likes of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and Pope Pius VI. He was a muse to William Blake and the inspiration for both Mozart's Magic Flute and Goethe's Faust. Louis XVI had him thrown into the Bastille for his alleged involvement in what would come to be known as the affair of the necklace. Yet in London, Warsaw, and St. Petersburg, he established healing clinics for the poorest of the poor, and his dexterity in the worlds of alchemy and spiritualism won him acclaim among the nobility across Europe.

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