Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro

Step into the glittering, treacherous court of Renaissance Urbino, where love and loyalty are games played with sharpened steel. In Love-at-Arms, Rafael Sabatini—later the celebrated author of Scaramouche and Captain Blood—unfurls an early romance of historical adventure, drawn from the chronicles of Urbino during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro. Here are courtly masques and midnight ambushes, whispered conspiracies and duels of honor, as gallant hearts navigate the machinations of a scheming rival and the perilous politics of fifteenth-century Italy. Brimming with wit, dash, and Sabatini's trademark sweep, this edition presents the COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED original text, faithfully reproduced, together with a new introduction situating the novel in Sabatini's career and its Renaissance setting, and reader's notes illuminating the people, places, and customs of the Montefeltro court. Part of The Founding Texts Library.