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 | | Having at last got into trouble with the authorities he fled from Sicily, and visited in succession Greece, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, Rhodes where he took lessons in alchemy and the cognate sciences from the Greek Althotasand Malta. |
 | | There he presented himself to the grand master of the Maltese order as Count Cagliostro, and curried favor with him as a fellow alchemist, for the grand masters tastes lay in the same direction. |
 | | the affair of the Diamond Necklace (q.v.); and although Cagliostro escaped conviction by the matchless impudence of his defence, he was imprisoned for other reasons in the Bastille. |
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