Frederick Rolfe AKA Frederick William Rolfe Born: 22-Jul-1860 Birthplace: London, England Died: 25-Oct-1913 Location of death: Venice, Italy Cause of death: Stroke Remains: Buried, Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Italy
Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Gay [1] Occupation: Author, Photographer Nationality: England Executive summary: Baron Corvo [1] According to W. H. Auden, "homosexual paranoid." If either that judgment, or his artistic photographs of nearly-naked teenage boys give any doubt, see also The Venice Letters (1974), containing his letters to Charles Mason Fox.
Theological: St Mary's College, Oscott Theological: The Scots College, Rome, Italy (expelled 1890)
Expelled from School Converted to Catholicism 1886
Author of books:
Stories Toto Told Me: About What Is Due to Repentance (1898) Chronicles of the House of Borgia (1901) In His Own Image (1901) Hadrian the Seventh: A Romance (1904) Don Renato, an Ideal Content: Historical Romance (1909, published later) The Weird of the Wanderer: Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe, Here Produced by Prospero & Caliban (1912) Three Tales of Venice (1950) The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice (1953) The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda: And Other Stories (1957) Nicholas Crabbe: Or, The One and the Many: A Romance (1958)
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