Hadrian the Seventh

Frederick William Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, was an English writer, artist, photographer, and eccentric, born on July 22, 1860, in London. Rolfe's literary career is often best remembered for the novel 'Hadrian the Seventh' (1904), a work of astonishing imagination that presented an autobiographical fantasy in which the protagonist, an English writer, is unexpectedly elected Pope. This book...