Rafael Sabatini

The Strolling Saint Rafael Sabatini

Publisher Marketing: In seeking other than in myself-as men will-the causes of my tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon those who held my mother at the baptismal font and concerted that she should bear the name of Monica. There are in life many things which, in themselves, seeming to the vulgar and the heedless to be trivial and without consequence, may yet be causes pregnant of terrible effects, mainsprings of Destiny itself. Amid such portentous trifles I would number the names so heedlessly bestowed upon us. It surprises me that in none of the philosophic writings of the learned scholars of antiquity can I find that this matter of names has been touched upon, much less given the importance of which I account it to be deserving. Possibly it is because no one of them ever suffered, as I have suffered, from the consequences of a name. Had it but been so, they might in their weighty and impressive manner have set down a lesson on the subject, and so relieved me-who am all-conscious of my shortcomings in this direction-from the necessity of repairing that omission out of my own experience. Let it then, even at this late hour, be considered what a subtle influence for good or ill, what a very mould of character may lie within a name. Contributor Bio:  Sabatini, Rafael Rafael Sabatini was one of the most famous authors of his time. He was an Italian-cum-English writer who wrote mostly on adventure and romance fictions. Rafael was a master of many languages. When he only seventeen he was fluent in 5 major languages of Europe. At that he came to England where he mastered 6th language, English. He Chose to write his novels and literary pieces in English language. He wrote and published his first novel in 1902. And in 1921, his masterpiece Scaramouche brought him enormous fame and wealth by becoming an international bestseller. He kept working on writing new books and published approximately one book each year. He maintained his name and popularity with each of his creations following the great success of Scaramouche. Many of his novels were adapted into silent films and about three of his creations made into movies in the sound era. Some of his famous creations are: Scaramouche The Sea-Hawk The Black Swan Captain Blood Bardelys the Magnificent Bellarion the Fortunate The Reaping The Black Swan The Banner of the Bull Collection The Life of Cesare Borgia King In Prussia Venetian Masque