Hadrian the Seventh: An Englishman Is Elected Pope
Frederick Rolfe
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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George Arthur Rose, a failed candidate for the priesthood living in a bedsit with his cat and his unpaid bills, is visited by two bishops, ordained, taken to Rome, and elected Pope. Rolfe called himself Baron Corvo and never forgave the Church for expelling him from two seminaries; this is his revenge and his self-portrait, and it is one of the strangest performances in English — vain, magnificent, and unanswerable. Fifty-four plates of quiet interiors and London streets by Hammershøi and Sickert give the novel's hothouse solitude its visual echo.
George Arthur Rose, a failed candidate for the priesthood living in a bedsit with his cat and his unpaid bills, is visited by two bishops, ordained, taken to Rome, and elected Pope. Rolfe called himself Baron Corvo and never forgave the Church for expelling him from two seminaries; this is his re...
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Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913) called himself Baron Corvo, tried and failed to become a priest, quarrelled with everyone who helped him, and wrote in Hadrian the Seventh the story of a man like himself elected Pope. He died alone in Venice, owing money.
Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913) called himself Baron Corvo, tried and failed to become a priest, quarrelled with everyone who helped him, and wrote in Hadrian the Seventh the story of a man like himself elected Pope. He died alone in Venice, owing money.
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