Bellarion
by Rafael Sabatini
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Bellarion, a young man set on joining the priesthood, is diverted from his calling to serve the Princess Valeria. He remains with her for five years, serving her faithfully despite her cold response. Yet when the time comes for him to leave, they both find that the passion and romance of Italy has left its mark...Tags
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Wonderful historical fiction of the swashbuckling adventure type!
Though not as famous as Captain Blood or The Sea Hawk, which got made into movies, this is one of Sabatini's best.
Bellarion es una novela de aventuras ambientada en la Italia del Renacimiento, basada en hechos y personajes históricos como Gian Galeazzo Visconti (primer duque de Milan), Facino Cane o Francesco Bussone (de Carmagnola), e inspirada en las intrigas políticas entre las ciudades-estado italianas de la época y en los enfrentamientos militares entre estas ciudades. A través de los ojos de un joven de 17 años recién salido del convento donde ha vivido su infancia y que se dirige a estudiar Humanidades a la Universidad de Pavía, en su camino conocerá el amor de Valeria de Monferrato y a grandes personajes de la época como los citados. El lector descubrirá a través de las páginas de este libro la Italia de los siglos XIV y XV, un show more mundo de artistas, poetas, y también de soldados, conspiradores y políticos. El autor nos presenta la figura curiosa y apasionante de los “condottieri”, líderes de pequeños ejércitos de mercenarios puestos al servicio del mejor postor que gestionaban las guerras con el menor riesgo para la vida de sus hombres pero siempre tratando de conseguir el mayor beneficio económico. show less
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Rafael Sabatini was born April 29, 1875 in Jesi, Italy. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages, and attending school in Portugal and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was seventeen, when he went to England to live permanently, he could speak five languages. He quickly added English and chose to write in his adopted show more language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English." After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini almost a quarter of century before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. It became an international best-seller. Captain Blood followed in 1922 and was equally as successful. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. While he would never achieve the success of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, Sabatini still maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed. By the 1940s, illness forced the writer to slow his prolific method of composition. However, he did write several additional works even during that time. His body of work consists of 31 novels, 8 short story colections and 6 books of poetry. He died February 13, 1950 in Switzerland. He is buried at Adelboden, Switzerland. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Bellarion
- Original title
- Bellarion the fortunate; a romance
- Original publication date
- 1926
- People/Characters
- Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
- LCC
- PZ3 .S113 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
- BISAC
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 10
