Rafael Sabatini

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Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (born April 29, 1875 in Jesi , Marken ; † February 13, 1950 in Adelboden , Wikon , Switzerland ) was an Italian - British writer. He had great success with novels and short stories mostly set against a historical background .

Life

Sabatini was the son of the Italian tenor Vincenzo Sabatini and his wife, the English soprano Anna Trafford . Sabatini came to Porto (Portugal) with his parents at an early age , as his father worked as a singing teacher at the local conservatory. The family later settled in Zug (Switzerland).

At the age of 17 Sabatini finished his school days and began a commercial apprenticeship in London . He then earned his living for over ten years as an employee of a bank. At the same time, Sabatini made a name for himself as a translator from Italian and Portuguese for correspondence with British companies.

In 1901 Sabatini debuted with a short story that was published in a British weekly. In the following year his first novel ("The lovers of Yvonne") appeared; this was given on May 9, 1902 in the Times Literary Supplement with a damning criticism. Sabatini was not unsettled by this and wrote other exciting novels. He researched his topics carefully and he gained a steadily growing number of readers.

In 1905 he married Ruth Goad Dixon and settled with his wife in Herefordshire ( West Midlands ). He later bought an old mill on the River Wye in Wales and lived as a freelance writer.

During the First World War and also in the first post-war years, Sabatini worked for the British intelligence service SIS . In addition to this activity, Sabatini wrote other novels. After the war ended, the official literary criticism began to praise Sabatini.

After Sabatini divorced his first wife Ruth, he married Christine Dixon in 1935.

Rafael Sabatini died on February 13, 1950 in Adelboden, Switzerland, at the age of 75.

reception

With his exciting novels Sabatini has become a bestselling author in the English-speaking world. He need not shy away from a comparison with Alexandre Dumas or Stanley Weyman .

Many of his novels were made into films with great success. The pirate film The Lord of the Seven Seas ( The Sea Hawk , USA 1940) directed by Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn had nothing to do with the Sabatini novel despite the similarity of the title and some borrowings from the 1924 film adaptation.

Works

author

Stage plays
  • The Tyrant. An episode in the Career of Cesare Borgia . A Play in Four Acts . Hutchinson, London 1925.
Novels
  • The Lovers of Yvonne. Being a Portion of the Memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes . Pearson's Books, London 1902 (also published under the title The Suitors of Yvonne )
  • The Tavern Knight . Hutchinson, London 1929 (EA London 1904).
  • Bardelys the Magnificent. Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis of Bardelys and of the things that in the course of it befell him in Languedoc, in the year of the rebellion . Houghton Mifflin, London 1933 (EA London 1905).
  • The Trampling of the Lilies . Hutchinson, London 1975 (EA London 1906).
  • Love-at-arms. Being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino during the dominion of the High and Mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro . Hutchinson, London 1927 (EA London 1907).
  • The Shame of Motley. Being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte . Hutchinson, London 1927 (EA London 1908).
  • Saint Martin's Summer. A tragic comedy . Hutchinson, London 1927 (EA London 1909).
  • Anthony Wilding . Hutchinson, London 1944 (formerly Mistress Wilding , 1910).
  • The Lion's Skin . Hutchinson, London 1926 (EA London 1911).
  • The Strolling Saint. Being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino d'Anguissola . Hutchinson, London 1928 (EA London 1913).
  • The Gates of Doom . Hutchinson, London 1928 (EA London 1914).
  • The Sea Hawk . Horton Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-393-32331-5 (EA London 1915).
    • The sea falcon . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-293-2057-1-0 (reprint of the edition Vienna 1949; EA Leipzig 1927 under the title Der Seehabicht. Ein Piratenroman ).
  • The snare . Hutchinson, London 1927 (EA London 1917).
  • Scaramouche . Hutchinson, London 1973, ISBN 0-09-115540-1 (EA London 1921).
    • Scaramouche. French Revolution novel . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-426-00736-3 (EA Leipzig 1927).
  • Captain Blood. His odyssey . Hutchinson, London 1922.
    • Captain Blood . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-293-20490-4 (EA Leipzig 1929 under the title Peter Bluts Odyssey ).
  • Fortune's Fool . Houghton Mifflin, London 1923.
  • The Carolinian . Houghton Mifflin, London 1924.
  • Bellarion. The Fortunate . Houghton Mifflin, London 1926.
    • Bellarion. A hero of the Italian Renaissance . Grethlein Verlag, Leipzig 1931.
  • The Hounds of God . Hutchinson, London 1974 (EA London 1928).
  • The Romantic Prince . Hutchinson, London 1929.
  • The minion. Being the rise and fall of Robert Carr of Ferniehurst . Hutchinson, London 1934 (EA London 1930 under the title The King's Minion ).
  • Captain Blood Returns . Houghton Mifflin, London 1931 (also The Chronicles of Captain Blood ).
  • Scaramouche the Kingmaker . Hutchinson, London 1931.
  • The Black Swan . Hutchinson, London 1932.
  • The stalking horse . Hutchinson, London 1933.
  • Venetian Masque . Houghton Mifflin, London 1934.
  • Chivalry . Hutchinson, London 1935.
  • Scaramis . London 1936.
  • The Fortunes of Captain Blood . Houghton Mifflin, London 1936.
  • The Lost King . Hutchinson, London 1952 (EA London 1937).
  • The Sword of Islam . Houghton Mifflin, London 1939.
  • The Marquis of Carabas . Hutchinson, London 1940 (for the US domestic market under the title Master-At-Arms ).
  • Columbus . Hutchinson, London 1941.
  • King in Prussia . Hutchinson, London 1944 (for the US domestic market under the title The Birth of Mischief ).
  • The Gamester . Hutchinson, London 1949.
  • The Treasure Ship . Kessinger Reprint, Whitefish, Mon. 2004, ISBN 978-1-4191-8581-6 .
  • Saga of the Sea , 1953
  • The Reaping . Reader'S Library, London 1929.
  • The Nuptials of Corbal . Hutchinson, London 1927.
Anthologies
  • The Justice of the Duke , 1912
  • The Banner of the Bull , 1915
  • Turbulent Tales , 1946
  • A Fair Head of Angling Stories , 1989
  • The Fortunes of Casanova and Other Stories (Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-19-212319-X , compilation of 1907-1921 & 1934 published stories)
  • The Outlaws of Falkensteig , 2000 (compilation of stories published from 1900 to 1902)
  • The Camisade and Other Stories of the French Revolution , 2001 (compilation of stories published between 1900 and 1916)
Non-fiction
  • The Life of Cesare Borgia , 1912 (German: The life of Caesar Borgia, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Princes of Andria and Venafri, Counts of Dyois, Lords of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, standard bearers and captain of the church , Stuttgart 1925)
  • Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition , 1913
  • The Historical Nights' Entertainment , 1917
  • Heroic Lives , 1934
Work editions
  • Sinner, Saint and Jester. A Trilogy in Romantic Adventure . Hutchinson, London 1954 (content: The snare, The strolling saint, The shame of Motley).
  • Saga of the Sea . Hutchinson, London 1953 (content: The sea-hawk, The black swan, Captain Blood).
  • Romances of the Franch Revolution . Hutchinson, London 1934 (content: Scaramouche, Scramouche, the kingmaker, The nuptial of Corbal).
  • In the Shadow of the Guillotine . Hutchinson, London 1955 (content: Scaramouche , The Marquis of Carabas and The Lost King ).

editor

  • A Century of Sea Stories . London 1935.
  • A Century of Historical Stories . London 1936.

Film adaptations

literature

  • Jesse F. Knight, Stephen Darley: The last of the great swashbucklers. A bio-bibliography of Rafael Sabatini . Oak Knoll Press, New Castle 2010, ISBN 978-1-58456-279-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sabatini, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesi , brands
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1950
Place of death Adelboden LU , Wikon , Switzerland