Buy this book on-line McCalman, Iain : THE LAST ALCHEMIST : COUNT CAGLIOSTRO, MASTER OF MAGIC IN THE AGE OF REASONHarperCollins, 2003 ISBN 9780060006907
A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. McCalman recounts the astounding adventures of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, the self-proclaimed alchemist and healer who was both revered and reviled by a host of eighteenth-century celebrities. Escaping a life of poverty in his native Sicily, the savvy street urchin turned to deception on a grand scale. Traveling across Europe promoting himself and peddling an odd amalgamation of Freemasonry and mysticism, he managed one narrow escape after another until he was finally imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition in 1789. Charming and outraging monarchs, priests, artists, scientists, physicians, and courtesans with his claims of magical powers, he crossed paths with or influenced Casanova, Catherine the Great, Goethe, Marie Antoinette, Mozart, and William Blake. McCalman, a cultural historian, takes this fascinating treatment a step further by analyzing the amazing scope of the Cagliostro phenomenon in the seemingly incongruous context of Enlightenment Europe., As New/As New Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of McCalman, Iain : THE LAST ALCHEMIST : COUNT CAGLIOSTRO, MASTER OF MAGIC IN THE AGE OF REASON. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, collectables, libri antichi, livres illustrées and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |