Frederick Rolfe

Frederick Rolfe was born in 1860 in London, converted to Catholicism at the age of twenty-six and had himself called Baron Corvo, a title he claimed to hold from an Italian duchess. Dismissed from two seminaries and never ordained, he lived on the generosity of benefactors with whom he ended up quarrelling, tried his hand at painting and photography, and died penniless in Venice in 1913. A biographical investigation published twenty-one years later brought him posthumous fame.

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• NovelHadrian the SeventhFrederick Rolfe · 1904LiteraturePublic domain