Frederick Rolfe

Frederick William Rolfe, poznatiji pod pseudonimom Baron Corvo, a i po tome što se nazivao 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (22.7. 1860 - 25.10. 1913.), bio je engleski pisac, likovni umjetnik, fotograf i ekscentrik.

Bibliografija uredi

Rolfeova glavna djela uključuju:

 
Rolfeov grob u Veneciji, (San Michele).
  • Stories Toto Told Me (1898)
  • Chronicles of the House of Borgia (1901)
  • Tarcissus the Boy Martyr of Rome (1901)
  • Nicholas Crabbe (1903-4, posthumno izadnje 1958)
  • Hadrian the Seventh (1904)
  • Don Tarquinio (1905)
  • Don Renato (1907-8, tisakono 1909 ali ne izdano, posthumno izdano 1963)
  • Hubert's Arthur (1909-11, posthumno izdano 1935)
  • The Weird of the Wanderer (1912)
  • The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (1909, izdano 1934)
  • In His Own Image (posthumno izdano 1926)
  • The bull against the enemy of the Anglican race (posthumno izdano 1929)

Literatura uredi

  • A. J. A. Symons: The Quest for Corvo (1934)
  • Corvo by Donald Weeks. Michael Joseph, London, 1971.
  • Rolfe, Frederick William by David Bradshaw in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (consulted online).
  • Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo by Miriam Benkovitz. Putnam's, New York, 1977. SBN: 399-12009-2

See also:

  • Sexual Heretics; Male Homosexuality in English literature from 1850-1900 - an anthology. Brian Reade (ed.). London, Routledge, Keegan and Paul, 1970.
  • Love In Earnest; some notes on the lives and writings of English Uranian poets from 1889 to 1930. Timothy D'Arch Smith. Routlege, Keegan and Paul. London, 1970.
  • John Julius Norwich, Paradise of Cities: Venice and its Nineteenth Century Visitors, Penguin, 2004.
  • Michael Matthew Kaylor, Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (2006),
  • The Translation of Father Torturo by Brendan Connell. Prime Books, 2005. Dedicated to Rolfe, this book is a clear homage to Hadrian the Seventh.
  • The Unspeakable Skipton; Pamela Hansford Johnson , Macmillan-1959; Penguin Books (No.1529) 1961 .