biography
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Rolfe, Frederick William (Serafino Austin Lewis Mary)
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pseudonym Baron Corvo
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Novelist and essayist, born in London, UK. A convert to Roman Catholicism, his life was shattered by his rejection from the novitiate for the Roman priesthood at the Scots College in Rome; but it prompted his most famous work, Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which a self-modelled priest is unexpectedly chosen for the papacy. His other major work is The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, published posthumously in 1934. |
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