Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was an Italian-born English writer of historical adventure stories. The two best-known are
Scaramouche and
Captain Blood His Odyssey, both of which have been filmed multiple times. The 1935 film version of
Captain Blood launched
Errol Flynn to stardom.
Rafael Sabatini's works include:
- The Lovers of Yvonne (AKA The Suitors of Yvonne) (1902)
- The Tavern Knight (1904)
- Bardelys the Magnificent (1906)
- The Trampling of the Lilies (1906)
- Love-At-Arms (1907)
- The Shame of Motley (1908)
- St. Martin's Summer (1909)
- Mistress Wilding (AKA Anthony Wilding) (1910)
- The Lion's Skin (1911)
- The Strolling Saint (1913; revised 1925)
- The Gates of Doom (1914)
- The Sea Hawk (1915) — Provided the title, but little else, for Errol Flynn's 1940 The Sea Hawk
- The Snare (1917)
- Scaramouche (1921)
- Captain Blood His Odyssey (1922)
- Fortune's Fool (1923)
- The Carolinian (1924)
- Bellarion the Fortunate (1926)
- The Hounds of God (1928)
- The Romantic Prince (1929)
- The King's Minion (AKA The Minion) (1930)
- Scaramouche the Kingmaker (1931)
- The Black Swan (1932) — Adapted into a 1942 Tyrone Power film of the same name; not to be confused with Darren Aronofsky's similarly titled 2010 film.
- The Stalking Horse (1933)
- Venetian Masque (1934)
- Chivalry (1935)
- The Lost King (1937)
- The Sword of Islam (1939)
- The Marquis of Carabas (AKA Master-At-Arms) (1940)
- Columbus (1941)
- King In Prussia (AKA The Birth of Mischief (1944)
- The Gamester (1949)
Works by Sabatini with their own trope pages include:
Sabatini's other works include the following tropes:
- The Highwayman: Sabatini wrote many stories about highwaymen, including several concerning the fortunes of a charming rogue who called himself "Captain Evans".
- Historical Domain Character: Too numerous to list.
- Historical Fiction: Most of what he wrote.
- Not In This For Your Revolution: This is a recurring theme in Sabatini's novels: a non-idealistic character is pointedly not supporting a less competent idealistic character on his/her quest. Then the forces the idealist opposes hurts the non-idealist or those he cares for. This is a Bad Move.
- Scooby-Doo Hoax: "The Plague of Ghosts"
- Swashbuckler: Most of what he wrote.
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