HUGO PRATT
Corto Maltese Fable of Venice
Fable of Venice, the 6th out of the 12 Corto Maltese volumes in English about the adventures of the romantic sailor created by Hugo Pratt in 1967 and published by IDW.
In this affectionate tribute to his hometown, Hugo Pratt offers a complex mystery thriller involving Freemasons, occultists, and esotericists set during the rise of Fascism in 1921.
Corto Maltese’s return to Venice is ostensibly a search for an emerald known as the Clavicle of Solomon, but by the end he is left questioning whether the object of his quest will open the hidden doors of magic and unravel the nature of time and space in this city of secrets… or if it’s merely “the stuff that dreams are made of,” as was the black bird of Dashiell Hammett’s novel featuring another Maltese.
IDW Publishing, San Diego, CA
TPB, B&W, 9.25″ x 11.625″, 64 pages
ISBN: 978-1-63140-926-4
Available since September 2017
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