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The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro - Softcover

McCalman, Iain

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9781784756406: The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro
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ISBN 10: 1784756407 ISBN 13: 9781784756406
Publisher: Arrow, 2017

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Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th-century Sicilian who became a magician, mystic, healer, Freemason, swindler, and last, but not least, a pornographer. He was so controversial, he became a central figure in "Faust and the Magic Flute". This work features his story that is told through the eyes of seven of his contemporaries.

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"The dodgy count's switchback story is told here with tremendous aplomb" (Financial Times)

"McCalman reveals the underside of the Age or Reason, and the dark man who served as its angel" (Sunday Times)

"In glittering splendour McCalman reveals the underside of the age of reason, and the dark man who served as its angel" (Sunday Times)

"Ian McCalman has written a fast-paced adventure and expose of the steamy side of the 18th century." (Daily Telegraph)

"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)

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The critically acclaimed biography of the eighteenth century quack, charlatan and murderer who was to the French Revolution what Rasputin was to the Russian.

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  • PublisherArrow
  • Publication date2017
  • ISBN 10 1784756407
  • ISBN 13 9781784756406
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages288
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