Venetian Masque | |
Author: | Rafael Sabatini |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Historical adventure |
Publisher: | Hutchinson (UK) McClelland & Stewart (CAN) |
Release Date: | 1934 |
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Venetian Masque is a 1934 adventure novel written by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini.[1]
It is set in the 1790s, around the time of the invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte which led to the fall of the Republic of Venice. The hero is the Vicomte de Saulx, a French aristocrat supposedly guillotined during the French Revolution, who enters the world of espionage in Venice.