Date: 1900-1950
MainCategory: HISTORICAL
Period: European Renaissance
Type: StandaloneNovel
Genre: historical
trope: Kingdom politics
Lenght: medium
Author: Rafael Sabatini
Reception: LIttle known
This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow; an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts.
Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels
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