The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has chosen Hugo Pratt – and his very famous character Corto Maltese – to represent Italian culture and language in the world. With the project “Hugo Pratt, the heritage, the artwork, the bryography” and in collaboration with CONG sa – based on a project by Patrizia Zanotti -, the company that manages the entire artistic oeuvre of the great Venetian cartoonist and writer, who passed away in 1995 – the long tour of these travelling exhibitions at Italian Cultural Institutes around the world begins today.