Hadrian the Seventh Rolfe Frederick William Baron Corvo
Hadrian the Seventh Rolfe Frederick William Baron Corvo One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. "The previous English pontiff was…
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Hadrian the Seventh Rolfe Frederick William Baron Corvo
One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. "The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth," he declares. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted.
It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command."Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. "The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron Corvo), religious obsession, and anarchic and self-aggrandizing sensibility have made him known as one of the great English eccentrics. Fr.
Rolfe endured a lifetime of indignities and disappointments. However, in the hilarious and touching pages of this, his finest novel, he