"It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature."

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Source : "Don Tarquinio" by Frederick Rolfe, London: Chatto and Windus, (p. x), 1941.

Frederick Rolfe

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