To reboot the adventures featuring the Venetian janissary Dago, he created a dreamlike encounter with Dante Alighieri. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is now being translated into Italian. The international Lucca Comic & Games fair opened this morning, and among the comic book authors and screenwriters is Sassari-born Gianluca Piredda.
The character of the fallen Venetian nobleman Dago was created by Argentinean Robert Wood. The family has given its approval for the production of new adventures by an Italian-South American team. Gianluca Piredda has the honor of opening the new series—not to be confused with the chronological release of the older stories—with the album "Risorto dalle acque," illustrated by Tejada. The initiative is being carried forward by Sprea Editori, which has acquired Edizioni Lancio.
The Sassari-born writer explains why he chose to include Dante Alighieri: "The publisher asked me to partially explore Dago's origins to engage new readers, so there's a dreamlike section where he imagines meeting Dante on a beach called Cala Goloritzè in the Gulf of Orosei. And in the future, there will be a Dago adventure set in Sardinia."
The other project is the full-color monograph "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tells Sherlock Holmes" (Allagalla Edizioni), which arrives in Italy after its successful release in Belgium and France. Gianluca Piredda explains the genesis of the comic, written by him and illustrated by Giacomo Rosati: "La1ére, the radio station of RTBF, the Belgian state television/radio, has created a podcast titled HeureH that examines the decisive moment in certain literary and other events. It discusses when Conan Doyle invented the character of Sherlock Holmes, inspired by a trip to London when he was 16 and an encounter with the real-life Dr. Joseph Bell, a surgeon and professor at the University of Edinburgh, a pioneer of forensic science who collaborated with Scotland Yard on several crimes, including those of Jack the Ripper."
