Brewer's: Cagliostro

Conte de Cagliostro, or Giuseppe Balsamo of Palermo, a charlatan who offered everlasting youth to all who would pay him for his secret (1743-1795).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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