Venetian Masque is a 1934 adventure novel written by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini.[1]

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

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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