Frederick Rolfe

Stories Toto Told Me

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Frederick Rolfe, who early in his career also published under the name Baron Corvo, became famous for his Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which an Englishman is unexpectedly elected Pope, and later became infamous for his writings on his love for Venetian boys.But it was with the Toto stories, first published in John Lane's fin de siècle literary journal The Yellow Book, that Corvo achieved his first and most widespread authorial success. In these tales, an Italian peasant youth ingenuously recounts to his English master six poignant and often funny stories dealing with Heaven, saints, morality, and religion. First published in volume form in… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Corvo, Baron / Miller, Edmund (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-934555-58-3
EAN: 9781934555583
Produktnummer: 3947090
Verlag: Valancourt Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.7 cm 147 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 147

Über den Autor

Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe' (1860 - 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. Rolfe spent most of his life as a freelance writer, mainly in England but eventually in Venice. He lived in the era before the welfare state and relied on benefactors for support. But he had an argumentative nature and had a tendency to fall out spectacularly with most of the people who tried to help him and offer him room and board. Eventually, out of money and out of luck, he died in Venice from a stroke on 25 October 1913. He was buried on the Isola di San Michele, Venice. Rolfe's life provided the basis for The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symons, an experiment in biography regarded as a minor classic in the field. This same work reveals that Rolfe had an unlikely enthusiast in the person of Maundy Gregory.