 Title page of first edition | |
| Author | Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Papacy, Catholic Church |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 1904 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 413 |
| OCLC | 1216758 |
| 823.912 | |
| LC Class | PR5236 .R27 |
| Preceded by | Stories Toto Told Me |
| Followed by | Nicholas Crabbe |
Hadrian the Seventh: A Romance (sometimes called Hadrian VII) is a 1904 novel by the English novelist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo".[1]
Rolfe's best-known work, this novel of extreme wish-fulfilment developed out of an article he wrote on the Papal Conclave to elect the successor to Pope Leo XIII.
- ^ Symons, A J A (1993). The Quest for Corvo. Quartet. p. 304. ISBN 978-0704301979.