Jesi, a diminutive city of the Italian Marches, was the birthplace of Rafael Sabatini.
He first went to school in Switzerland and from there to Lycee of Oporto, Portugal, and has never attended an English school. But English is hardly an adopted language for him, as he learned it from his mother, an English woman.
Today Rafael Sabatini is regarded as “The Alexandre Dumas of Modern Fiction.”
BELLARION
THE SHAME OF MOTLEY
THE LION’S SKIN
THE GATES OF DOOM
THE TRAMPLING OF THE LILIES
THE STROLLING SAINT
THE CAROLINIAN
MISTRESS WILDING
THE BANNER OF THE BULL
SAINT MARTIN’S SUMMER
FORTUNE’S FOOL
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
THE SNARE
CAPTAIN BLOOD
THE SEA-HAWK
SCARAMOUCHE
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