Prince of Storytellers
RAFAEL SABATINI was a_ prince | of story-tellers' who loved to write | vigorous, hot-headed romances about. princes, dukes, medieval noblemen, | pirates with royal blood in their fero- | cious hearts, the Spanish Inquisition, the love affairs of kings and adventurers. His heroes all lived by a simple code of morality. They fought with their | natural strength and courage against the intriguing villainy of their enemies, and often won the -heroine’s kiss after kill- : ;
| ing off wicked uncles with | their sword. They were gal- ' lant swashbucklers, always | heroic and always chivalrous. Sabatini, is remembered in the main these days for such | stories as Scaramouche or Captain Blood, but he also wrote histories of real people | like Cesare Borgia and Tor- | quemada. His earlier novels 'are perhaps not so widely | known now, and listeners | may have forgotten Love at | Arms. This was broadcast as |a serial last year from 4ZB and has now started from | 2XP, at 9,15 a.m. on Tues- | days and Thursdays. It tells a story of Italy in the days of ‘the Condottieri-professiona) ‘soldiers who were hired to | fight the battles of, the great | Dukes and landowners. Its
bail two leading characters, Francesco, Count of Aquila, and the Princess Valentina of Urbino, .become involved in a medieval intrigue which is solved with the help of Peppino the Jester. Valentina is pledged to marry the wicked Duke Gian Maria, whose cruelty and extravagances have brought disaster to the state of Babbiano, She flees to the Castle Roccaleone, where with Francesco’s ‘help she defeats the Duke and restores happiness to the land.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 14
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262Prince of Storytellers New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 14
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