Corto Maltese® & Hugo Pratt™ the secrets are © Cong SA. of venice... All rights reserved. the AdVENTURE! © Cong SA / Casterman THE SECRETS OF VENICE from “Fable of Venice” THE QUEST ON THIS ADVENTURE ADVENTURE Fable of Venice takes place in 1921 and is divided into four chapters. The background of the story Some places in Venice can reveal hidden CARDS is the rise of facism in Italy in the aftermath of the First World War. In this book, Hugo Pratt treasures… • 13 “character” cards shares some of his childhood memories and, as he often does, takes the reader into a true When the game is over, each “character” card • 3 “object” cards adventure novel. • 1 “advantage” card placed on a space with gold coins is worth that Under the watchful eyes of the god Abraxas, the masonic lodges and the facist militias, • 2 “Corto” cards much gold to the player controlling it. Corto Maltese, who came to Venice to solve a riddle given to him by his friend Baron Corvo, is • 1 “Rasputin” card tracking down the “Clavicle of Solomon”, a legendary emerald. In this story, full of suspens and unexpected events and which will eventually end in a dream, Corto will let us discover mysterious women, fallen aristocrats, “Blackshirts”, and magical places of Venice. In this example, the blue player gains 3 gold, green and yellow gain nothing. Bepi Faliero TEONE Louise Umberto Astronomer, astrologer and Brookszowyc Stevani mathematician, this master Better known as “the Beauty A young facist, member of of the occult sciences is also of Milano”, this friend of the Blackshirts of Venice. a Brother of the masonic Little Silver Foot takes care He made a career in the lodge Hermes. He is the of a wounded Corto. facist party before joining father of Hipazia. She will eventually leave to the resistance in 1943. work in Buenos Aires… Hipazia SCHULZ Little Silver A RIFLEMAN Foot BOEKE Melchisedech Gabriele Son of Little Silver Foot, this This jewish scholar of the D’Annunzio “madman” and his mother “Old Ghetto” of Venice, Historical figure of this help Corto in his researches. of Spanish ancestry, was adventure, this italian poet He is secretely in love with an expert on the Kabbalah. is a hero of World War One. Hipazia. Can also be placed on the For a while, he was a Can also be placed on the storyline board of adventure C nationalist but eventually storyline board of adventure A (base game). abandoned the facist Boselli A FREEMASON (base game). ideology. He died in 1938..