Love-at-arms — Rafael Sabatini
Topics: класика
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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 Raphael Sabatini
“Le donne, i cavalier', l'arme, gli amori, Le cortesie, l'audace imprese io canto.”
ARIOSTO
From the valley, borne aloft on the wings of the evening breeze, rose faintly the tolling of an Angelus bell, and in a goat-herd's hut on the heights above stood six men with heads uncovered and bowed, obeying its summons to evening prayer. A brass lamp, equipped with three beaks, swung from the grimy ceiling, and, with more smoke than flame, shed an indifferent light, and yet a more indifferent smell, throughout the darkening hovel. But it…
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