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A chi è rivolto
For readers who love cloak and dagger adventure, courtly intrigue and romance with high stakes. It also suits readers new to Sabatini.
Che cos’è questo libro
Love-at-Arms is a historical romance by Rafael Sabatini, the English writer who made his name with tales of swordsmen, schemers and lovers in past centuries. This one belongs to the early part of his career. It is set in the Italy of the Renaissance, a land of rival courts, proud families and quick blades.
In a book of this kind you meet a hero who must defend his honour, enemies who smile while they plot, and a love that does not fit the rules of the age. You get pace, color and a clear sense of what people risked for name and heart. Let us look first at the world in which such a story lives.
In questo riassunto
- 1The Italy of courts and rivalriesFree
- 2Honor is a weapon and a burden
- 3Love that breaks the rules
- 4How Sabatini tells such a tale
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The Italy of courts and rivalries
Renaissance Italy was not one country. It was a patchwork of duchies, city states and papal lands, each ruled by a family eager to keep its power. Sabatini knew this world well, since he lived much of his youth in Europe and spoke several languages. Writers of adventure found it ideal, because the rulers were rich, the quarrels were many and the rules of honour were strict.
In such a place a single insult could start a feud. A marriage could seal a treaty or break one. A courtier's smile might hide a plan to ruin him.
This is the backdrop for Love-at-Arms. It gives the story its tension before any sword is drawn. Readers of this kind of tale meet palaces, council rooms, narrow streets and the open road, all shaped by ambition and fear of a rival.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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