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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Last Alchemist

Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason

by Iain McCalman

A lively biography of Giuseppe Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, healer, Freemason and founder of an Egyptian rite. McCalman follows him across Europe to his arrest by the Roman Inquisition and uses his career to explore the eighteenth century's appetite for wonder.

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