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24 de septiembre de 1717 - 02 de marzo de 1797†. Nació en: Londres, Inglaterra. Murió en: Londres, Inglaterra. Aquí podrás encontrar los detalles de la vida del autor, pseudónimos, su obra publicada, artículos y libros que se han escrito en relación al autor.
Horace Walpole, born in London, England, on September 24, 1717, was the fourth child and youngest son of the great British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford, and Catherine Shorter Walpole. The child was christened Horatio, but he disliked the name, preferring to be called Horace. Young Walpole enjoyed the advantages of ...
Citas sobre Horace Walpole [ editar] « Hannah More le dijo a Horace Walpole: "Si quisiera castigar a un enemigo, debería ser asegurándole el problema de odiar constantemente a alguien». Original: «Hannah More said to Horace walpole: "If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constanly hating somebody».
Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter. Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a writer, politician, and architectural innovator. He was the youngest son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole and the cousin of Lord Nelson. The pseudo-Gothic castle which he built at ...
Il castello di Otranto (The Castle of Otranto) è un romanzo di Horace Walpole del 1764, considerato il primo romanzo gotico.Ambientata nella città salentina di Otranto, nell'Italia meridionale, è l'opera che diede l'avvio al genere letterario poi diffusosi tra il tardo Settecento e l'inizio dell'Ottocento, con autori come Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis ...
24 de sept. de 2021 · Horace Walpole (1717-1797, painting) by Joshua Reynolds 1756. On September 24, 1717, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, connoisseur, and collector as well as Whig politician Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford was born. Walpole built Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades ...
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters. In this book, eminent scholar Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest men of letters. Lewis sheds light on Walpole’s relationships with his family and friends, his ...
