Iain McCalman

 



THE SEVEN ORDEALS OF COUNT CAGLIOSTRO
Biography of the eighteenth century quack, charlatan and murderer who was to the French Revolution what Rasputin was to the Russian.

Moving through the period between the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution - a time when reason and superstition co-mingled in the minds of even the best educated - Cagliostro earned a reputation for dazzling kings, feeding the poor, healing the ill and, most conspicuously, relieving the careless rich of their money.

He tangled with most of the major figures in Europe at that time, including Cassanova, Mozart, Goethe and Catherine the Great.

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