Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian. He is the author of ’Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren’, ’Independence of Brazil’, ’Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire’ and ’Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient’ (all I.B.Tauris) as well as ’The Last of the Crusaders: The Knights of St John and Malta in the Eighteenth Century’ and ’Italia Romantica: English Romantics and Italian Freedom’ (Tauris Parke Paperbacks).