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The evocation of the devil by the courtesan Veronica Franco with the King of France. The spy initiation of Mata Hari a few days after the Great War. The black diary of Edgar Allan Poe found by Baron Corvo. The head that screams in Lista dei Bari. The Stargate at San Simeon Grando. The young Stalin on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni. The strange kidnapping of the Japanese ambassador. The extravagances of the Marquise Luisa Casati-Press. The deposits of human bones in the lagoon islands. The mysterious rockfall in Campo San Boldo. The haunted houses and ufological sightings... the Venice of the unusual, magical city par excellence, told with the usual irony by Claudio Dell'Orso.
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Author Biography
Claudio Dell'Orso, Venetian doc, expert in Gothic literature, erotic comics and cinema noir, as well as a black chronicle enthusiast. Among his numerous publications: "The art of Leone Frollo" (1990); "Dark ladies. La donna fatale nei comics" (1992); "Venezia erotica" (1995); "Venezia libertina" (1999); "I segreti dei conventi" (2001); "Nero veneziano" (2005); "Venezia Sconta" (2009); "Dizionarietto erotico veneziano" (2012).
Helvetia Editrice
Edizioni Helvetia was born in 1972 from an idea of the poet and musician Gianni Spagnol who, after a six-year experience in Zurich as a printer at an important publishing complex, wanted to found in Venice - between Campo San Rocco and Campo San Tomà, not far from the Frari Church - a printing house/publishing house that would promote and stimulate the historical-literary production of the Venetian and Venetian area in detail. Then, with the 90s, the company was moved to the mainland. In 2006, with the acquisition by its granddaughter Daniela Spagnol, the name changed to Helvetia Editrice and the publications continued to explore themes linked to the territory, especially in the "Rosso Veneziano" series - which gathers historical curiosities, with a "popular" and mainly narrative slant - and the "VeneziaeVenetoVivo" series - more linked to pure historical non-fiction and documentation. Enriched with non-fiction and fiction, since 2019 Helvetia has been back in the game with two series that challenge the usual comfort zone by leaving the local territory: "Taccuini d'Autore" (Author's Notebooks), which collects books on the road, texts that travel and travel along the frontier of writing; and "Nuovi Territori" (New Territories), a line created to enhance new authors and unusual topics from experimental themes.
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- Publisher Helvetia Editrice
- Publication Date December 2016
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788895215617
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- Primary Price 15 EUR
- Pages256
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleVenezia Arcana
- Original Language Authorsitalian
- Copyright Year2016
- Page size13 x 20 cm (13 x 20 cm) cm
- SeriesRosso Veneziano
- Series Part24
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