Now We Are Pope: Frederick Rolfe in Venice explores the last hour in the life of writer Frederick Rolfe ("Baron Corvo"), who died in Venice in 1913. A complex, cantankerous, and contradictory character, Rolfe relives a turbulent life, in which he made enemies with the same enthusiasm he sought friends, in which he was strongly attracted to handsome young men while swearing celibacy for most of his adult life, and in which he devoted his life to the Catholic church while despising the Catholic hierarchy that refused to make him a priest. At the end he achieves his utmost ambition and becomes Pope.
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