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The trajectory of his turbulent life was breathtaking, his range of experience vast. In this evocative book, the first biographical over view of Corvo's world in almost 40 years, noted Corvo scholar Robert Scoble examines the writer's character and motivations. Scoble has drawn on his three decades of research in hitherto undisturbed library archives and troves of family letters to produce these essays in microhistory. He shows how these lives intersected in the story of a great eccentric who assumed the bogus title Baron Corvo and spent his final years scandalising Venice.
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- PublisherAtrange Attractor Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1907222235
- ISBN 13 9781907222238
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages398
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Raven: The turbulent world of Baron Corvo [aka Frederick Rolfe]
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London:Strange Attractor Press
(2013)
ISBN 10: 1907222235
ISBN 13: 9781907222238
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. 8vo aqua cloth, gilt spine titles, crisp and clean, appears unread. Dust jacket has small blemish to spine where pricetag removed, pos to fep ow NF/vgdj: Xxvii+392pp, index;/ Copiously annotated and researched, with extensivew footnotes, Raven brings previously supporting characters who crossed paths with Frederick Rolfe into outed focus. Brilliant, original research on Frederick William Rolfe (1860-1913), better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, a writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and turn-of-the-century gay British eccentric whose unusual fiction has inspired a cult following. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886 and was confirmed by Cardinal Manning. With his conversion came a vocation to priesthood despite being never realised. The Yellow Book published a series called Stories Toto Told Me (1898), humourous retellings of Italian peasant legends about the saints, later collected in book form and with a sequel, In His Own Image. Later works include Chronicles of the House of Borgia (1901), an idiosyncratic historical study in refulgently Baroque prose; Tarcissus the Boy Martyr of Rome (1901); Nicholas Crabbe (1903); Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which an Englishman is unexpectedly elected Pope; Don Tarquinio (1905); Don Renato (1907) and The Weird of the Wanderer (1912). Seller Inventory # 210701a600
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