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      Don Tarquinio

      Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo

      We stood up, openly looking at him as though we were astounded at his audacity: for, in starting, he had knocked down the double-cross, golden, which leaned against the pedestal…

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      The Weird Of The Wanderer

      Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo

      The silver god, and the golden goddess, before many gods and goddesses…The silver god, and the golden goddess on a throne…The silver god, following the star. Having said these words…

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      Don Renato: An Ideal Content

      Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo

      Our artificers imitate their masters, or their antecessors. It is human to evade operose labor of body or mind. Labor of mind facilitly may be evaded by imitation: for, so…

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      Chronicles of the House of Borgia

      Frederick Baron Corvo,Frederick William Rolfe

      The author of this unusual work was one of the most enigmatic, eccentric of English writers. He lived and died in poverty, and was as unscrupulous in grasping for money…

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      Hadrian The Seventh

      Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo

      One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted.

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      Hadrian VII: Play

      Frederick William Rolfe, Baron Corvo

      This text is a novel of thwarted ambition and ecclesiastical wish-fulfillment. When a set of curious circumstances propels George Arthur Rose from despised obscurity to the throne of St Peter…

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