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Venetian Masque

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Venetian Masque
First edition
AuthorRafael Sabatini
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical adventure
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
McClelland & Stewart (CAN)
Publication date
1934
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

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.

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  1. ^ The Booklist. Vol. 31. American Library Association. 1934. p. 91.
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