Don Tarquinio: A Kataleptic Phantasmatic Romance

by Frederick Rolfe

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Genres: Fiction

257 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1905

About the author

English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Rolfe is also known as Baron Corvo. His best known work is the novel Hadrian the Seventh.

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

short novel about one day in the life of a young italian renaissance gentleman who finds favour with a cardinal, and ultimately pope alexander VI, via an adventure with cesare borgia. it works quite well as a companion to rolfe's borgia history book, since this is basically a single fictional character getting involved around the edges of some of the political intrigue covered in that book. the style is baroque and full of ornate and sometime made up words, as in rolfe's other 'historical' books, and the framing device of it being a translated manuscript allows rolfe to put in cute little footnotes explaining things. quite nicely written overall but it feels a bit slight because of how short it is.

[Will · Rating 4 out of 5]

Couldn't someone have to decency to adapt this, instead of that Showtime atrocity? The cloak and dagger plot with Cesare and Pietrogorio should be cinematic enough.

[Katherina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly entertaining adventure of a young man.