Rafael Sabatini composition, though he did write several works during that time. Sabatini died in Switzerland February 13, 1950. He was buried in Adelboden, Switzerland. On his headstone his wife had written, "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad", the first line of "Scaramouche". Rafael Sabatini Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: "The Sea Hawk" (1915), "Scaramouche" (1921), "Captain Blood" (a.k.a. "The Odyssey of Captain Blood") (1922), and "Bellarion the Fortunate" (1926). In
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