Word: corvo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete interior wall-papering and painting including painting several rooms more than once because "Mrs. Goldstein didn't like the shade," Lou Corvo, vice-president of the Local 35 union and a Yale plumber said...
FREDERICK ROLFE: BARON CORVO by MIRIAM J.BENKOVITZ 332 pages. Putnam...
Apart from Hadrian the Seventh, a bitingly satirical novel about a destitute writer who becomes Pope, the books of Frederick Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, are little read. But his life as self-styled genius and unrepentant poseur continues to tantalize. In the 1930s, two decades after Rolfe's death, A.J.A. Symons made him the subject of a celebrated literary whodunit. The Quest for Corvo. In 1971, Donald Weeks wrote a more conventional biography, Corvo. Miriam Benkovitz, an English professor at Skidmore College, offers a new and exhaustive study. Her style is academic and sometimes awkward, but the Baron radiates...
...soiled priest in any event. As Rolfe said throughout his life, he found "the Faith comfortable and the Faithful intolerable." That he survived at all seems due to his unearthly genius as a con man. Writing from Italy, he styled himself the Rev. Rolfe; in England, he was Baron Corvo, grandson of an Italian countess. He continually sold his talent to benefactors, pledging pictures and books that rarely materialized...
...self-pity and bitterness, Baron Corvo possessed animal magnetism as well as remarkable resilience. He could eke out a season on an open boat in the Venice lagoon, then bounce back to a life of high style...