A freemason, prophet and conjurer of spirits, this Sicilian, whose real name was Giuseppe Balsamo, possessed truly inexhaustible ingenuity and extraordinary hypnotic abilities, which allowed him to fool almost the entire enlightened Europe. But, having believed in his star, Cagliostro did not notice how he became a bargaining chip in the political games of the powers that be, frightened by the French Revolution. The lush trail of rumors that accompanied every step of Cagliostro, already during his lifetime, turned him into a mysterious person, who became an inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers, poets, mystics and occultists. In this book, based on extensive documentary material, Balsamo-Cagliostro is presented as a man of his time, who not only talentedly exploited eternal human passions, but also managed to grasp the spiritual quest of his contemporaries. And to believe or not to believe in the immortality of the divine sorcerer Cagliostro is up to the reader himself...