Frederick William Rolfe | |
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_English_writer,_artist_and_photographer.jpg) Rolfe as a seminarian, c. 1889-90 | |
| Born | 22 July 1860 Cheapside, London, England |
| Died | 25 October 1913 (aged 53) Venice, Italy |
| Pen name | Baron Corvo Frank English Frederick Austin Prospero A. Crab Maid Fr. Rolfe |
| Occupation | Novelist, artist, fantasist, eccentric |
| Nationality | English |
| Literary movement | Uranians[citation needed] |
| Notable works | Hadrian the Seventh The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole Nicholas Crabbe Stories Toto Told Me Don Renato Don Tarquinio Chronicles of the House of Borgia |
Frederick William Rolfe (surname pronounced /roʊf/ ROHF[1]), better known as Baron Corvo (Italian for "Crow"), and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe[2] (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric.
- ^ Robert McCrum, 'Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe', The Guardian, 2 June 2014; compare Ralph.
- ^ 'I was baptized iii Jan. 1886 at St. Aloysius, Oxford, receiving the names "Frederick William". "Serafino" was conferred by Bishop Hugh Macdonald in Aberdeen Cathedral on my profession in the third order of St. Francis. "Austin Lewis Mary" were conferred by Cardinal Manning in the chapel of Archbishop's House, Westminster, at my confirmation.' A.J.A. Symons, The Quest for Corvo, Cassell, 1934, p.188.