New Quest for Corvo

NEW QUEST FOR CORVO:

AN UPDATED GAY BIBLIOGRAPHY

● ROLFE, WILDE AND BARON CORVO:

FLAMING FAGS OF THE FIN DE SIÈCLE

● THE INSATIABILITY OF HOMO HAUNTS:

VENETIAN GONDOLIER SAME SEX DESIRE

● HAUGHTY HADRIANESQUE: BARON CORVO

AND VATICAN PRETENSIONS OF GRANDEUR

● FREDERICK ROLFE: THE CONTESSA MAGDA 

TERRIBILI-GONZALES OF VENICE SOCIETY

● QUEER QUEST FOR CORVO: SYMONS AND

THE MAJOR SECRET URANIANS 

● SMEGMA DESIRES: INTRODUCTION TO

NAUGHTY NASTY GAUCHE GONDOLIERS

● THE GAY VICTORIAN SUPERNATURAL:

OUIJA CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BARONESS

● CATHOLIC CONVERTS AND CUMLY POPES:

SWEEPING AWAY OLD VATICAN COBWEBS

● URANIAN VAGABONDAGE: EXPERIMENT

IN COTEMPORARY GAY BIOGRAPHY 

● LETTERS FROM VENICE: CONFESSIONS

OF A VENETIAN PROCURER OF PRICKS

● THOMAS MANN AND BARON CORVO: 

BEYOND TADZIO AND TOTO IN VENICE

● CORVO, CULTURE AND GAY SOCIETY:

BARON CORVO'S MALICE DEPICTING 

THE SALONNIER ALONG WITH LABORIOUS 

SMALL TALK, DISPLAYING HER LATEST 

CHOICE VENETIAN ACQUISITIONS 

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(For those readers attracted to the ornate scurrilities of the Baroness’ HADRIAN THE SEVENTH and THE DESIRE AND PURSUIT OF THE HOLE, may I suggest researching the ‘merry magenta’ Miss Nelson McTavish who paraded as the bumbling host of the Palazzo degli Incurabili—a sly allusion to the old fag hospital of the sixteenth century that rises above the Zattere between the Ca’ Torresella and the customs point. 

Or perhaps Miss Corvo’s rather naughty dishy malice depicting the Salonnier, along with her usual rather tres laborious Lotte Lenya ‘Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales’ chit-chat, procuring much-needed money from her latest wealthy visiting patrons—such as a German prince with lovely onyx studs who talks of young Venetian gondoliers as if they were young gods from Olympus, going on & on with excellent English.

Plus a blushing white and scarlet mincing crumpled-corseted Oxford Academician, a shy Uranian devotee of the faggy Forbidden Fruit with her cretin-esque cockney twang, such a pitiful despairing, dyspathetic featureless British aging queen… but she had money to throw away on her last Aschenbach-esque fling before she finally not so gracefully fucking kicked the bucket.)