{"id":14166,"date":"2017-10-12T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cortomaltese.com\/en\/?p=14166"},"modified":"2020-08-04T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T06:26:27","slug":"fable-of-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cortomaltese.com\/en\/fable-of-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Fable of Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"

HUGO PRATT
\nCorto Maltese Fable of Venice<\/span><\/h1>\n

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. <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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I<\/span>n this affectionate tribute to his hometown,\u00a0Hugo Pratt\u00a0offers a complex mystery thriller involving Freemasons, occultists, and esotericists set during the rise of Fascism in 1921.<\/strong>
\nCorto Maltese\u2019s 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\u2026 or if it\u2019s merely \u201cthe stuff that dreams are made of,\u201d as was the black bird of Dashiell Hammett\u2019s novel featuring another Maltese.<\/p>\n<\/div>

IDW Publishing, San Diego, CA<\/strong>
\nTPB, B&W, 9.25\u2033 x 11.625\u2033, 64 pages
\nISBN: 978-1-63140-926-4
\nAvailable since September 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>

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