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Frederick Rolfe / Baron Corvo
Frederick William Rolfe, who gave himself the title Baron Corvo, and who also called himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (22 July 1860 - 25 October 1913), was a writer, artist, photographer and eccentric.
Rolfe was comfortable with his homosexuality, and associated and corresponded with a number of other gay Englishmen. Early in his life he wrote poetry about boys; his Toto stories also contain paederastic elements. Another topic dear to Rolfe's heart was the Roman Catholic church, to which he was strongly attracted, but which rejected his attempts to become a priest.
some of the above is adapted from the wikipedia
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the frontispiece of A J A Symons' The Quest for Corvo
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The following are currently available from Arbery Books.
Don Tarquinio
by Frederick Rolfe
1941, Chatto and Windus, London
Fair, £6.00
The imagined life of Don Tarquinio Giorgio Drakontoletes Poplicola di Santacroce at the end of the fifteenth century.
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Hadrian the Seventh
by Frederick Rolfe
1963 (first Penguin edition), Penguin, Harmondsworth
Fair, £2.50
Englishman rejected by Roman Catholic Church finds himself elected Pope.
"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."
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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography
by A J A Symons
1934, 1st edition, Cassell, London
signed by author
Good, £175.00
"rather than being a simple narrative of a life, [The Quest for Corvo] describes an author's search for understanding of his subject, revealing aspects of Rolfe's life and character as they are revealed to the author. Though it appears entirely natural, the work is very skillfully orchestrated. The result is a vivid, prismatic portrait of Rolfe, those who knew him, and of Symons himself."
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Venice Letters
by Fr Rolfe, Baron Corvo
1974, 1st edition, Cecil & Amelia Woolf, London
Good, £57.50
"Baron Corvo's notorious Venice Letters are among the few intimate and revealing documents of any writer to remain unpublished in full. Corvo's extraordinary descriptions of his homosexual - or, more accurately, pederastic - activities in Venice are given in direct language, in detail, and with utter honesty, in this correspondence with his friend Masson Fox in England."
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The following books are no longer available from Arbery Books. Contact us if you are looking for a title by or about J R Ackerley.
Collected Poems
by Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe)
1974 1st edition, Cecil & Amelia Woolf, London
Thirty-one poems, many either addressed to specific boys or about boys in general. Plus reproductions of original black and white illustrations by the author.
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Stories Toto Told Me
by Frederick, Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe)
1969 1st edition thus, Collins, London
"These stories, presented by the author as told to him by a simple, illiterate Italian peasant boy, of indestructible faith, have a gaiety and absence of bitterness which are rare in Corvo's writing. Here, even where he caricatures the clergy, it is all in good fun rather than in rancour."
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The Armed Hands & Other Stories And Pieces
by Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe)
1974 1st edition, Cecil & Amelia Woolf, London
Previously uncollected stories, sketches, essays, book reviews and miscellaneous writings, including eight unpublished works and five only seen in early magazines.
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