Rafael Sabatini's (18751950) The Fool's Love Story was first published in The Ludgate magazine in June 1899. This is the second of the well-known published works of the writer .. The hero of the story is a professional fool, a court jester . Time of action summer of 1635. [ ) Location: Schwerlingen, capital of the conditional Kingdom of Sachsenberg in Germany. (German translation: The story is written in the present time and looks like an opera libretto (recall, the father and mother Sabatini were opera performers) or a script, evokes in memory, of course, the opera “Rigoletto”, as well as the image of Chico from Dumas’ novels “The Countess de Monsoro” and “Forty-five” .