Iain McCalman

The Seven Ordeals Of Count Cagliostro

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Guiseppe Balsamo was born in the mid-eighteenth century in the slums of Palermo, Sicily. He would rise from obscurity to become the legendary Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, whose dangerous charm and reputed healing would make him the darling - and bane - of upper-crust Europe. 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… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4481-0805-3
EAN: 9781448108053
Produktnummer: 16366712
Verlag: Cornerstone
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 942 KB

Über den Autor

Iain McCalman is currently Professor and Director of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre for Cross-Cultural Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held numerous Visiting Research Fellowships in Britain and the United States, most recently at All Souls College, Oxford.