Love-at-Arms (Annotated)

Rafael Sabatini's Love-at-Arms is a spirited historical romance of Renaissance Italy, moving through courts, fortresses, and contested loyalties with the momentum of a duel. Set amid the martial and political culture of Urbino and its surrounding principalities, the novel combines courtly love, espionage, factional rivalry, and swordplay. Its prose is richly colored, theatrical, and deliberately a...