Frederick Rolfe, who early in his career also published under the name "Baron Corvo," became famous for his Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which an Englishman is unexpectedly elected Pope, and later became infamous for his writings on his love for Venetian boys. But it was with the "Toto" storie...
While they lived in this world, they used to get into mischief in each other’s company; for they were extremely fond of playing tricks upon the pagans who were putting the Christians to death. Then, when their turn came, they gladly suffered martyrdom; and San Pancrazio was killed by a wild bea...
The eighth was my fortunate day. I will set down the history of the said day, a.d. vij Kal. Mar., being the day of Mars in the year MCCCCLXXXXV. Divine Phoibos was finishing his course, and his radiant horses were about to plunge into the ocean-stream, when the Most Illustrious Lord Cardinal-Δ. o...