Count Cagliostro
Subtitle: An Authentic Story of a Mysterious Life
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780766157774
Subjects: Biography: historical; Historical - General; Biography / Autobiography
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.