Rafael Sabatini was an Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure. He is best known for his worldwide best-sellers: The Sea Hawk, a tale of an Elizabethan Englishman among the pirates of the Barbary Coast Scaramouche, a tale of the French Revolution in which a fugitive hides out in a commedia dell'arte troupe and later becomes a fencing master Captain Blood, in which the title character is admiral of a fleet of pirate ships Bellarion the Fortunate, about a cunning young man who finds himself immersed in the politics of fifteenth-century Italy In all, Sabatini produced thirty-one novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and a play. 

April 29th, 1875 in Iesi  /  Died:   Feb 13th, 1950