In Rome ‘Hugo Pratt’s Geographical Library’

From Homer to Rudyard Kipling, from Arthur Rimbaud to Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Roberts, passing through Shakespeare and D’Annunzio. The literary references of Hugo Pratt and consequently of Corto Maltese, are at the center of the exhibition ‘Hugo Pratt’s geographical library, a journey into real and imaginary literature’, on display from September 27th to December 20th in Rome, in the rooms of the Palazzo Strozzi-Besso in Largo di Torre Argentina.

The exhibition, curated by Patrizia Zanotti and Nadège Vaïnas, is part of the celebrations for the centenary of the Library of the Foundation, one of the most astonishing in Rome. An ideal journey along the routes of Hugo Pratt’s geographical library through over 40 original plates and watercolors, large reproductions, films and vintage magazines, which will accompany visitors in the universe of literary references in the works of Hugo Pratt, through the geographical itineraries of the author and his characters.

“What always struck me about Pratt was his immense library and his obstinate need to know. He traveled to places around the world and among his books,” explains Patrizia Zanotti, Pratt’s long-time collaborator and now managing director of CONG, the company that manages the rights to all the artistic work of the great Venetian designer. “Literature, along with cinema, music and every other form of art, was his horizon line. This exhibition tries to tell all this.”