Horatius Walpole






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Horatius Walpole: subscriptio




Nativitas: 24 Septembris 1717; Londinium
Obitus: 2 Martii 1797; Londinium
Patria: Kingdom of Great Britain

Officium



Officium: Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain
Munus: Scriptor, mythistoricus, Autobiographus, Politicus




Consociatio



Factio: Whig




Familia



Genitores: Robertus Walpole; Catherine, Lady Walpole




Memoria



Laurae: Fellow of the Royal Society
Sepultura: Norfolcia








Horatii Walpole effigies a Rosalba Carriera picta





Horatii Walpole effigies a Iosua Reynolds anno fere 1757 picta


Horatius Walpole, vulgo Horatio et saepius Horace (natus Londinii die 24 Septembris 1717; ibidem die 2 Martii 1797 mortuus) fuit eruditus, artium amator et rerum politicarum peritus Anglicus, filius primi ministri Roberti Walpole. Ob villam rusticam Strawberry Hill a se iuxta Twickenham aedificatam illustris est et prelum ibi instauratum nomine "Officina Arbuteana". Amicas Annam Damer, Mariam et Agnetem Berry assidue coluit sed uxorem nullam duxit.



Opera selecta |




  • 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



Nexus externi |



  • Strawberry Hill House

  • "Horace Walpole" apud The Twickenham Museum


  • Epistulae Horatii Walpole apud Universitatem Yalensem



Bibliographia |



  • 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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