English history and Italian religious culture

T. Adolphus Trollope

1810 – 1892

Thomas Adolphus Trollope was an English writer and historian who spent most of his adult life in Florence and Rome, and the brother of novelist Anthony Trollope. He authored over 60 books on Italian history, religion, and culture during the Risorgimento era, and was a frequent investigator of the medium D.D. Home, contributing to Victorian discourse on Spiritualism and the supernatural.