“Oh that the truly terrible example I have just put before their eyes, provoking in their hearts a salutary repentance, might save me the grief of having to lament their fate! Let them recognize their errors! Let them make one simple step toward justice, and my lips will open only to bless them.”

— Alessandro Cagliostro

Cagliostro’s Letter to the English People (1787)

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Italian occultist 1743–1795

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