Tuesday, July 26 , 2022, in Asiago, an interesting literary meeting awaits you with Matteo Strukul who will present his latest book "The cemetery of Venice" (Ed. Newton Compton).
The appointment, which is part of the cultural review "Aperitif with the Author", organized by the Giunti Library of Asiago, is at 17:30 in Piazza Carli or, in case of bad weather, at the Palazzo del Turismo Millepini.
Free participation.
THE BOOK: THE CEMETERY OF VENICE (ed. Newton Compton)
Violence could submerge Venice and dye its waters of blood and death. The first investigation by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto.
Venice, 1725. While a smallpox epidemic claims victims among the population, one of the most illustrious women in the city is found with her chest torn in the black and icy waters of the Rio dei Mendicanti. In a climate of growing tension, Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, is summoned by the State Inquisitors, suspicious of one of his recent works, which portrays precisely that infamous place: is there perhaps a link between the painter and the murder? While, distraught, he is leaving the Doge's Palace, Canaletto is stopped and brought before the doge, also interested in that painting, the Rio dei Mendicanti. In the painting there is something that, if revealed, could seriously embarrass an important Venetian family: a nobleman, portrayed in one of the most popular and plebeian places in Venice. Why was he in such a place? Canaletto receives from the doge the order to find out and report directly to him. The investigation – which at first frightens him and then, slowly, captures him – leads him, however, to frequent apparently illustrious environments in which obscure rites seem to be consumed, and in which ambiguous figures wander, from the past shrouded in mystery. What secrets are hidden in the Venetian palaces? What truths would be better buried?
Matteo Strukul
Discovered by Massimo Carlotto, he published at the Edizioni e/o La ballata di Mila (winner of the Valpolicella Special Prize 2011 and semi-finalist at the Scerbanenco Prize 2011) and also wrote the screenplay for the comic Red Dread (Lateral Publish 2012), based on the adventures of the heroine of his first novel, Mila Zago, drawn by Alessandro Vitti and winner of the Leone di Narnia Award 2012 as best Italian serial comic. Graduated in Law and PhD in European Contract Law, collaborator with "Il Mattino di Padova", "La nuova di Venezia e Mestre" and "La tribuna di Treviso". He also conceived and founded Sugarpulp, a Venetian literary movement that received the blessing of Joe R. Lansdale and Victor Gischler, as well as artistic director of the Sugarpulp Festival. He directs Revolver, the new publishing brand of Edizioni BD dedicated to noir. Among his books we remember the saga of The Medici (A dynasty in power, winner of the Bancarella Prize 2017, A man in power, A queen in power and Decadence of a family), The carousel of broken flowers. The case of the exterminating angel, The Knights of the North and Dante enigma. In 2018 Rinascimento, il genio e il potere dai Medici ai Borgia (Mondadori) is released. In collaboration with the cartoonist Andrea Mutti he wrote the saga Vlad, published by Feltrinelli. Of 2021 Dante enigma and of 2022 The cemetery of Venice the first investigation by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, both published by Newton Compton.
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