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The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
A modern scholarly biography treating Balsamo and Cagliostro as one self-reinventing figure and resisting a flat verdict of fraud.
Where to find it
- Google Books — The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason (HarperCollins reissue)
- Internet Archive — borrowable scan of the US edition (Count Cagliostro, master of magic in the age of reason)
- Open Library work record — The Last Alchemist (Iain McCalman)
- Publishers Weekly review — The Last Alchemist: The Seven Extraordinary Lives of Count Cagliostro, Eighteenth-Century Enchanter (HarperCollins, 2003)