The Saracen Blade Author:Frank Yerby In a strange way, they were twins-though one of them was a commoner, and the other an Emperor, thought they shared not one drop of related blood. Pietro di Donati, son of a blacksmith and Frederick the Second of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, were born on the same day, at the same hour, in the smae Sicilian town. Thereafter, linked by their... more » stars, they became brothers, bound by a bond of the spirit, of temperament, of their curious, alert intellects, in a way that transcended the usual kinship of the flesh.« less