The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

Biographical account of 18th-century Sicilian, Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro. Account told from the perspective of seven of his contemporaries including Casanova, Goethe and Catherine the Great. Explores his lives as a freemason, necromancer, shaman, copt, prophet, rejuvenator and heretic, and describes his fame throughout Europe and his final imprisonment. Includes photos and notes. Author is Professor and Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He has previously written 'Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840' and edited 'The Enlightenment World'.McCalman, Iain is the author of 'The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro', published 2003 under ISBN 9780732273972 and ISBN 0732273978.