To document this story, Hugo Pratt explains that he drew information from the books of a missionary institute in Verona ( Veneto, Italy), the Comboni. In the previous story, in Peru, the sailor met a monk who told him about this mysterious map kept in Venice. This story is a transition between Corto's adventures in the Americas (in the volume Under the Sign of Capricorn and Beyond the Windy Isles) and in Europe (in this volume). Portrait located in Berlin Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany ( Ethnological Museum of Berlin, Germany) Analysis While the Carabinieries take out her Austrian accomplices, Venexiana manages to escape. the story " Banana Conga", in the volume Beyond the Windy Isles) who now wants to find El Dorado. Inside, the sailor discovers that the "paralytic woman" is in fact Venexiana Stevenson, his old enemy from Honduras (cf. With few of his men and Corto, he goes to the palace to unravel the mystery. This little game intrigues Antonio Sorrentino, the Carabinieri captain. The responsible party is seemingly a strange paralysed woman living in a Venetian palace, nicknamed "The Angel in the Window to the Orient".Ĭorto finds that, in recent days, an Austrian plane has often flown over her house. Once there, he discovers that a page showing the location of the seventh city is missing from the book. Thus, a monk advises Corto to go to the Venetian Ghetto to meet Melchisedech the rabbi, who owns a diary describing all seven cities. However, only six are listed on the document - the seventh is missing. These mines are also the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola and the mythic El Dorado. This could lead him to the location of the Sapa Inca Atahualpa's seven mines, around the Marañón River, in Peru. In 1917, Corto arrived and asked the monks for a copy of a map, drawn on a missionary's skin. In the Venetian Lagoon, San Francesco del Deserto is an island that is home to a Franciscan monastery.
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