Count Cagliostro
Subtitle: An Authentic Story of a Mysterious Life (Kegan Paul Library of Arcana)
Publisher: Kegan Paul
Published: August 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780710309822
Subjects: Western Europe - General; History; History - General History; History: World; History / Europe / Western
First sentence: IF Rovereto, the essentially Italian town in the Venetian Tridentine, found itself in the possession of the Hapsburgs in September 1788, it was in consequence of having, once upon a time, torn into shreds and made a bonfire of the standards on which the lion of St. Mark was picked out in gold against a background of dark purple, the colour of clotted blood.