Word: caparison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time Yerby's missile is dressed in full medieval caparison. The Saracen Blade tells the life story of a peasant who was born at the same time, same place as a prince. Pietro di Donati is therefore presumably controlled by the same stars as Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor. Author Yerby says, but hardly bothers to show, that their careers run as parallel as the two sides of a coin. Yet certainly Pietro must have had more girls; they fell for him in domino-rows...