Bellarion the Fortunate: a romance
Rafael Sabatini
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This novel, in three parts, follows the adventures of a young man, Bellarion, after he leaves the safety of the monastery that had nurtured him as an orphan waif. As young man of striking good looks, intelligence, wit, and unswerving loyalty, Bellarion's first five years in the world prove full of adventure, danger and romance. His life is intertwined with powerful Regents, Marquis, Dukes and Princesses with rogues, thieves, and pretenders amongst their midst. His strategic brilliance ensures him fame on the battlefields of 15th century Northern Italy but will his efforts avail him in this new and stunning world? More especially will he ever win the heart of the skeptical Princess Valeria? The novel intertwines real historical figures and events with fictional embellishments to craft a rapidly moving tale of adventure, strategy and philosophy on the motivations of human ambition, vanity and folly..
(Summary by KiwiReader24) (16 hr 17 min)
Chapters
| The Threshold | 24:03 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Grey Friar | 25:16 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Door Ajar | 27:31 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Sactuary | 19:05 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Princess | 22:25 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Winds of Fate | 22:36 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Service | 22:08 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Stalemate | 14:06 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Marquis Theodore | 12:46 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Warning | 19:20 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Under Suspicion | 15:45 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Count Spigno | 13:04 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Trial | 23:13 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Evasion | 9:41 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Miracle of the Dogs | 28:50 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Facino Cane | 25:32 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Countess of Biandrate | 21:14 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Champion | 17:37 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Commune of Milan | 21:23 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Fruitless Wooing | 14:07 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Manoeuvres | 27:14 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Battle of Travo | 15:39 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| De Mortuis | 15:34 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Knight Bellarion | 27:06 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Siege of Alessandria | 28:15 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Visconti Faith | 10:42 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Victuallers | 20:12 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Muleteer | 19:48 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Camisade | 11:46 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Severance | 23:09 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Return | 13:47 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Hostage | 26:15 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Lord Bellarion | 22:01 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Battle of Novi | 23:16 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Facino's Return | 16:07 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Count of Pavia | 25:25 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Justice | 34:49 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Inheritance | 22:56 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Prince of Valsassina | 28:08 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Carmagnola's Bridges | 26:28 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Vercelli | 18:16 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Arrest | 24:51 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Pledge | 22:10 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| Carmagnola's Duty | 27:57 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Occupation of Casale | 18:40 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Vanquished | 17:04 | Read by KiwiReader24 |
| The Last Fight | 10:33 | Read by KiwiReader24 |