Rafael Sabatini
1875–1950
Biography
Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950) was born in Italy and built his career as a writer in English, so he is generally counted as a British author. Over his working life he wrote about thirty-four novels, several collections of short stories, a handful of non-fiction books and a number of plays. He became one of the most widely read writers of romance and adventure in the first half of the twentieth century.
His best-known novels include The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (1922) and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). They are swashbuckling tales set in earlier centuries, in which duels, political danger and courtship are woven together. Several of them were filmed, in silent pictures and later in sound, and those adaptations carried his name well beyond the reading public.
Love-at-Arms is the book of his that the site holds. Its title points to the same mixture of romance and combat that made his bestsellers popular. Readers should keep in mind that his novels are romances first: the history in them serves the story and is not offered as a scholarly account of the past.
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Books
Love-at-arms: being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
by Rafael Sabatini
Early in the sixteenth century, in the hill country of Urbino under Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, a young lord makes a vow, a fortress is besieged, and love and feud grow tangled. Rafael Sabatini's romance of swordplay and honour, 1907.
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.