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Chivalry is the story of Colombo da Siena, an Italian condottiero of the fifteenth century, a captain of fortune who, with the mercenary aims of his kind, combines ideals proper to the Age of Chivalry already overpast in his day.
Just as in Captain Blood, Mr. Sabatini gave us what amounted to a composite portrait of several of the more famous buccaneers of the Caribbean, so in Chivalry he gives us a composite portrait of the condottieri of the quattrocento and cinquecento. Colombo da Siena borrows something from the splendid Colleoni, from Gattamelata, from Carmagnola, and from other great leaders who took their swords to market in the turbulent Italian Peninsula. The narrative follows his fortunes in camp and court through a series of typical episodes, from the humble days when he was in command of ten helmets in Colleoni’s company, learning the art of war, to those when he had become Captain-General of the armies of Venice.
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