The Manara Library Volume 6 Escape From Piranesi And Other Stories

Milo Minara is a well-known and much-loved Italian graphic novelist, and he has been collaborating with Dark House to bring a comprehensive catalogue of his work to the English-speaking world. Manara's artwork and satirical voice are both in top form in this latest edition, and these stories, spanning two decades, are among his funniest, sexiest and most beautiful. The latest in a series of nine volumes, this reprint allows classic Manara stories to be experienced by a whole new audience.

Collects two of Manara's major works: the historical saga El Gaucho, the second of Manara's epic collaborations with his mentor Hugo Pratt, and Trial by Jury, a series of shorts never before published in the U.S., in which nine of history's most notorious figures undergo a mock trial.

Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara's four-part sweeping saga of sex, blood, and religion is collected in a single edition for the first time ever, a perfect companion volume to Dark Horse's award-winning Manara Library series. With breathtakingly beautiful painted artwork by Manara, this account of Italy's first Mafia family is among comics' - and history's - sexiest, most violent and most engaging epics!

Continuing Dark Horse's comprehensive English collection of Italian comics master Milo Manara's work, this volume features the enthralling historical epic El Gaucho, the second of Manara's storied collaborations with his mentor Hugo Pratt, author of the internationally acclaimed Corto Maltese. Rounding out this offering is Trial by Jury, a series of captivating shorts in which some of history's most notorious figures undergo a mock trial. With The Manara Library, English-language readers have the opportunity to experience the illustrative storytelling of a true comics master.

"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi

From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous, historical figures and uncovering secrets and conspiracies that have shaped the city without our ever knowing it. From Rome's origins as Romulus's stomping ground to the dark atmosphere of the Middle Ages; from Caesar's unscrupulousness to Caravaggio's lurid genius; from the notorious Lucrezia Borgia to the seductive Anna Fallarino, the marchioness at the center of one of Rome's most heinous crimes of the post-war period, Augias creates a sweeping account of the passions that have shaped this complex city: at once both a metropolis and a village, where all human sentiment-bravery and cowardice, industriousness and sloth, enterprise and laxity-find their interpreters and stage. If the history of humankind is all passion and uproar, then, as the author notes, "for centuries Rome has been the mirror of this history, reflecting with excruciating accuracy every detail, even those that might cause you to avert your gaze."