For 10 points, name this eccentric author of Hadrian the Seventh who styled himself a baron, and whose lifeâs details became the subject of a literary quest by A.J.A. Symons.
This alleged pedophile often took photos of young boys in Genzano di Roma, which were reprinted in some issues of The Yellow Book; further evidence of his pedophilia is evident in his poem âBallade of Boys Bathing.â A posthumously published homoerotic novel by this man focuses on a writer who falls in love with his effeminate servant Zildo, whom he decides to dress as a gondolier. He also created a chain- smoking writer who lives with his cat Flavio; that character, George Arthur Rose, becomes the pope in a novel by this author. The adventures of this author of The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, such as receiving a title from the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini, are the subject of an âexperiment in biographyâ in which the author tries to piece together his life like a sleuth in a detective story. For 10 points, name this eccentric author of Hadrian the Seventh who styled himself a baron, and whose lifeâs details became the subject of a literary quest by A.J.A. Symons.
This alleged pedophile often took photos of young boys in Genzano di Roma, which were reprinted in some issues of The Yellow Book; further evidence of his pedophilia is evident in his poem âBallade of
Baron Corvo [or Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe] [âroafâ; accept reasonable phonetic pronunciations]