Don Renato : An Ideal Content

By Rolfe, Frederick William

Book Id: WPLBN0000631499
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Don Renato : An Ideal Content
Author:	Rolfe, Frederick William
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: THESE are the words of the book which I, Frederick William, the son of James, the son of Nicholas, the son of William, the son of Robert, wrote in London and in Rome. Because you, o painter, incessantly perturb me with inquisitions concerning the sources of my curious knowledge of matters archaick and abnormal, because you incessantly transfix me with the intent regard of your Kretan brows, and molest me with entreaties that I, as man to man or (at times) as artificer to artificer, should demonstrate to you the Four Causes of my gests, especially that I should tell you how I do my deeds (and you know how many and how rare these be) ? I will give you this book. A life, as of an anachoret, as of an eremite, in severance from the world of articulately?speaking men, while rendering me inhabile in expressing thoughts, creeds, opinions, in spoken words, has made me subadept with the pen ? a very detestable condition. On this account, time and human patience would be exhausted before I should be able to satisfy you by word of mouth: but, thirteen months occupied by me in writing, and seven nights or three days (when your workshop may be obscured by London fog) occupied by you in reading, will make clear to you at least one of the sources of my knowledge.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: DON RENATO: AN IDEAL CONTENT, 1 -- Frederick William Rolfe, 1 -- EPISTLE DEDICATORY, 1 -- OF THE EFFICIENT CAUSE, 2