Rafael Sabatini

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

Life

Sabatini was the son of Italian tenor Vincenzo Sabatini and his wife, the English soprano Anna Trafford. Already in early childhood came Sabatini with his parents to Porto ( Portugal), as his father worked at the Conservatory as a singing teacher. Later, the family settled in train ( Switzerland ).

With 17 years Sabatini finished his schooling and started in London a business education. Subsequently, he earned his living for over ten years as a bank employee. In parallel, Sabatini made ​​a name as a translator from Italian and Portuguese for the correspondence of British companies.

1901 could Sabatini debut with a small short story, which was published in a British weekly magazine. Already in the following year his first novel ( " The lovers of Yvonne "); this was considered on May 9, 1902 in the Times Literary Supplement with a scathing critique. But Sabatini let this does not unsettle and wrote more exciting novels. He researched his subjects accurately and he won a steadily growing number of readers.

In 1905 he married Ruth Goad Dixon and settled with his wife in Herefordshire (West Midlands ) down. Later he acquired in Wales an old mill on the river Wye and lived as a freelance writer.

During the First World War and in the early postwar years Sabatini worked for the British intelligence service SIS. In addition to this employment Sabatini wrote to other novels. After the war, the official literary criticism Sabatini began to praise.

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

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

Reception

With his exciting novels Sabatini was just in the English-speaking world to the purchaser author. For a comparison with Alexandre Dumas and Stanley Weyman he needed not shy.

Many of his novels have been made ​​into a film with great success. The by Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn pirate movie directed Legend of the Seven Seas ( The Sea Hawk, North Carolina 1940) had, however, despite the title of similarity and some bonds from the film version of 1924 has nothing to do with the Sabatini novel.

Works

As author

  • The Tyrant. An Episode in the Career of Cesare Borgia. A Play in Four Acts. Hutchinson, London, 1925.
  • 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 falling on 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 Monte Bianco. Hutchinson, London 1927 (EA London 1908).
  • Saint Martin 's Summer. A tragi - comedy. Hutchinson, London 1927 (EA London 1909).
  • Anthony Wilding. Hutchinson, London 1944 (former title 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 Hawk. Union Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-293-2057-1-0 ( Nachdr d ed Vienna in 1949, EA Leipzig in 1927 under the title The Seehabicht A pirate novel. ).
  • Scaramouche. Novel of the French Revolution. Earthscan, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-426-00736-3 (EA Leipzig 1927).
  • Captain Blood. Union Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-293-20490-4 (EA Leipzig in 1929 under the title Peter Blood Odyssey).
  • Bellarion. A hero of the Italian Renaissance. Grethlein Verlag, Leipzig, 1931.
  • The black swan. Novel. Union Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-293-20529-1 (EA Munich 1949).
  • 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 1907-21 and published in 1934, stories )
  • The Outlaws of Falkensteig, 2000 ( compilation of stories published 1900-1902 )
  • The Camisade and Other Stories of the French Revolution, 2001 ( compilation of stories published 1900-1916 )
  • The Life of Cesare Borgia, 1912 (Eng. The life of Caesar Borgia, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafri, Earl of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, standard bearer and field captain of the Church, Stuttgart 1925)
  • Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition, 1913
  • The Historical Nights' Entertainment, 1917
  • Heroic Lives, 1934
  • Sinner, Saint And Jester. A Trilogy in Romantic Adventure. Hutchinson, London, 1954 ( Contents: 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 (contents: Scaramouche, Scramouche, the kingmaker, The nuptial of Corbal ).

As editor

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

Films

  • King Vidor (Director): Gallows wedding. 1926 ( after Roman Bardelys, the Magnificent ).
  • Rex Ingram ( director: . Scaramouche USA 1923. Remake: George Sidney ( director): Scaramouche, the gallant Marquis ( Scaramouche, USA 1952)
  • Remake: Michael Curtiz (Director): Captain Blood ( Captain Blood, USA 1935)
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