“I cannot speak. Some things must not be told to princes... My wizard is worn out... Nothing is to follow but the gold turning into dry leaves, as in the Arabian tale.”

— Alessandro Cagliostro

Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)

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Italian occultist 1743–1795

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