Abstract
The precise nature of Horace Walpole's sexuality remains elusive, in spite of the extent of his surviving correspondence — which is vast but with notable and possibly strategic gaps. Walpole's reactions to two queer men he encountered in Italy, Cardinal Prince Henry Benedict and Baron Philipp von Stosch, nevertheless reveal some of his preoccupations and anxieties in relation to male‐male sexual desire.
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2025
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