The Many Lives of the Greatest Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century.
Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th Century Sicilian who became a magician, a mystic, a healer, a Freemason, swindler and last, but not least, a pornographer. He was famous throughout Europe, and so popular in France that his imprisonment for allegedly stealing a diamond necklace from Marie Antoinette fanned the flames of revolution . . .
The Count was so controversial, he became the central figure in both Goethe;s 'Faust', Part One and Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'. His story is told through the eyes of seven of his contemporaries, including Casanova, Goethe and Catherine the Great.
