Contrite priests suddenly bestow Holy Orders on a wretched failure who was expelled from the seminary for lack of a true vocation. He is soon in Rome with his bishop to elect a new Pope. The stymied conclave elects the dedicated new priest: Hadrian VII. The new Pope decides to sell Vatican art treasures to finance feeding the world's poor. He smokes on the throne and entertains old friends like his landlady and new ones like a seminarian who is having a hard go of it until an assassin puts an end to Hadrian VII.

Hadrian VII (Picador Books)

Literature & Fiction

Frederick Rolfe

Contemporary

Picador, 1978, Great Britain

In His Own Image

History

Franklin Classics Trade Press

The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole is a scurrilous sensual fantasy, a vindication of a man who felt betrayed by his friends, and a testament to a fervent affection for the city of Venice. Highly autobiographical, it chronicles the hectic descent of Nicholas Crabbe into destitution and starvation amongst the glories of Venice. His passage is brightened only by his love for his servant the boy-girl Zildo; a love which becomes ever more obsessive. Written a year before Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, this novel is both more passionate and more deeply autobiographical. It was never published in the author's lifetime because of its libellous content and the homoerotic aspects of the narrative, and when it eventually found a publisher in 1934 it was altered throughout. This is the first complete edition.

The Desire & Pursuit of the Whole

George Braziller

A history of the Borgias

Frederick Baron Corvo

Greenwood Press

Collected Poems

Poetry

Cecil Woolf

Frederick Rolfe's "Reviews of unwritten books"

Tragara

Agricultural and pastoral prospects of South Africa

Africa

RareBooksClub.com

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