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Frederick Rolfe

    An English novelist, artist, fantasist, and eccentric, Rolfe is also known by the name Baron Corvo. His writing delves into complex themes of identity and desire, characterized by a rich and detailed prose style. With a distinctive voice and an unconventional perspective, his work offers readers a uniquely compelling and memorable literary experience.

    Il desiderio e la ricerca del tutto
    Les Borgia
    Hadrian VII.
    Hadrian the Seventh
    Hadrian the VII
    • Hadrian the VII

      • 388 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Novel about an Englishman expelled from the seminary who unexpectedly becomes pope.

      Hadrian the VII
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    • Hadrian the Seventh

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      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. "The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth," he declares. "The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command."Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron Corvo), religious obsession, and anarchic and self-aggrandizing sensibility have made him known as one of the great English eccentrics. Fr. Rolfe endured a lifetime of indignities and disappointments. However, in the hilarious and touching pages of this, his finest novel, he triumphs.

      Hadrian the Seventh
    • Les Borgia

      • 403 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      La natura umana non è sempre grave e maestosa; ha i suoi alti e bassi. Da questo assunto muove Frederick Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, per comporre un'erudita e curiosissima apologia di una delle più controverse dinastie dell'Europa cristiana, i Borgia. Lo scopo di Baron Corvo è, piuttosto, mostrare i Borgia quali in realtà furono, come campioni, cioè, di splendore e decadenza in un'epoca passionale di vizio e virtù estreme. Alessandro VI, Lucrezia, il duca Cesare, appaiono così vivi, suggestivi e lontani da eroici quanto ipocriti cliché celebrativi. Eccentrico e magniloquente, "Cronache di Casa Borgia" ricostruisce la genealogia della famiglia, dalla metà del XV alla fine del XIX secolo, intrecciandola con molte altre storie: la guarigione del Grande Scisma, la Rinascita delle lettere e delle arti, l'invenzione della stampa, l'invasione musulmana dell'Europa, la storia della scoperta dell'Uomo.

      Les Borgia