Milo Minara is a well-known and much-loved Italian graphic novelist, and he has been collaborating with Dark House to bring a comprehensive catalogue of his work to the English-speaking world. Manara's artwork and satirical voice are both in top form in this latest edition, and these stories, spanning two decades, are among his funniest, sexiest and most beautiful. The latest in a series of nine volumes, this reprint allows classic Manara stories to be experienced by a whole new audience.

Collects two of Manara's major works: the historical saga El Gaucho, the second of Manara's epic collaborations with his mentor Hugo Pratt, and Trial by Jury, a series of shorts never before published in the U.S., in which nine of history's most notorious figures undergo a mock trial.

Continuing Dark Horse's comprehensive English collection of Italian comics master Milo Manara's work, this volume features the enthralling historical epic El Gaucho, the second of Manara's storied collaborations with his mentor Hugo Pratt, author of the internationally acclaimed Corto Maltese. Rounding out this offering is Trial by Jury, a series of captivating shorts in which some of history's most notorious figures undergo a mock trial. With The Manara Library, English-language readers have the opportunity to experience the illustrative storytelling of a true comics master.

"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi