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and its increasingly famished and cholera-stricken populace, until Manin finally managed
to negotiate a surrender to Austria with a guarantee of no reprisals. Yet the indignity of
Austria's suppression continued to fester, and when presented with the option in 1866, the
people of Venice and the Veneto voted to join the new independent kingdom of Italy under
King Vittorio Emanuele II.
One of Italy's most beloved graphic novels,
Corto Maltese in Fables of Venice
(originally published in 1967) fol-
lows Hugo Pratt's cosmopolitan sea captain as he cracks the mysteries of the
calli
(alleyways).
