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Plot / Content: Rating: N "'Your Holiness would perhaps prefer to be called Leo, or Pius, or Gregory?' the Cardinal Dean inquired [sic] with imperious suavity. 'The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth: the present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command.' And so George Arthur Rose became Pope. "Hadrian the Seventh is inextricably entangled with the author, Fr Rolfe. Both were Catholic converts, both unsuccessful candidates for the priesthood, who had led bitter misunderstood lives, spurned by friends, bishops and prelates. Fr. Rolfe put all his intensity of passion, all his hate and suffering, his dreams and fantasies into his creation of Hadrian VII, the shabby outcast suddenly able to right the wrongs of a lifetime and reshape the whole political world. "It is this intuitive blend of insight and perversity, of satire and self-knowledge which makes Hadrian the Seventh so alive: here is the incisive, perspicacious Pope, infallible and all-knowing, and the lonely, sensitive Englishman, who 'underneath his armour longed for sympathy." (from the cover) Background / Biography:
Reviews: Verbose but always fascinating study of character, history and prejudices of the early twentieth century. Martin Foreman Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Simultaneously with the beatificatory bull Laudemus insignes was issued the Epistle to the English. The Pope affirmed that the English Race naturally was fitted to give an example to humanity. In particular, He categorically distinguished its solid worth, its dignified good sense, its deliberate tenacity, its imperturbable habit, its superb impassiveness in reverses, its stoical firmness under the most cruel deceptions, its unshaken determination to conquer under any circumstances. In general, He noted its faculties of self-restraint, of construction, of administration and (among the upper and middle classes) of altruism. " Secondhand booksellers |
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