Horatius Walpole
Horatius Walpole, vulgo Horatio et saepius Horace (natus Londinii die 24 Septembris 1717; ibidem die 2 Martii 1797 mortuus) fuit eruditus, scriptor artium amator et rerum politicarum peritus Anglicus, filius primi ministri Roberti Walpole. Ob villam rusticam Strawberry Hill (en) a se iuxta Twickenham aedificatam illustris est, a mythistoria gothica The Castele of Otranto et prelum ibi instauratum nomine "Officina Arbuteana". Amicas Annam Damer, Mariam et Agnetem Berry assidue coluit sed uxorem nullam duxit.
Opera selecta
recensere- Some Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762)
- The Castle of Otranto (1764) Textus apud gutenberg
- The Mysterious Mother (1768)
- Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III (1768)
- On Modern Gardening (1780)
- A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (1784)
- Hieroglyphic Tales (1785)
- The Letters of Horace Walpole vol. 1 2 3 4; alia editio vol. I II
Bibliographia
recensere- R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Horace Walpole. A Biography (London: Methuen, 1964).
- Paul Langford, "Walpole, Horatio, fourth earl of Orford (1717–1797)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 Situs venalis
- Timothy Mowl, Horace Walpole: The Great Outsider. London: Murray, 1996. ISBN 0-7195-5619-8
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