Love-at-arms: being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
By Rafael Sabatini
Cover: Portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (c. 1507), oil on panel by Raphael (1483-1520) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1520)
Early in the sixteenth century, in the hill country of Urbino under Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, a young lord makes a vow, a fortress is besieged, and love and feud grow tangled. Rafael Sabatini's romance of swordplay and honour, 1907.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Vox Populi
- 2: On a Mountain Path
- 3: Sackcloth and Motley
- 4: Monna Valentina
- 5: Gian Maria
- 6: The Amorous Duke
- 7: Gonzaga the Insidious
- 8: Among the Dregs of Wine
- 9: The “Tratta Di Corde”
- 10: The Braying of an Ass
- 11: Wandering Knights
- 12: The Fool's Inquisitiveness
- 13: Gian Maria Makes a Vow
- 14: Fortemani Drinks Water
- 15: The Mercy of Francesco
- 16: Gonzaga Unmasks
- 17: The Enemy
- 18: Treachery
- 19: Plot and Counterplot
- 20: The Lovers
- 21: The Penitent
- 22: A Revelation
- 23: In the Armoury Tower
- 24: The Interrupted Mass
- 25: The Capitulation of Roccaleone