Iordanou, Ioanna

Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance

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ISBN 13:
9780198791317
author:
Iordanou, Ioanna
format:
Hardback
publisher:
Oxford University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2019
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
23.7 x 16.2 x 2.1 centimetres (0
Genre:
History, Europe
Condition:
New
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£51.91

Description

Reconstructing Intelligence in Renaissance Venice The conventional view is that systematized intelligence and espionage are modern phenomena. This book challenges this orthodoxy by recounting the story of the world's earliest centrally organized state intelligence organization, created in Renaissance Venice. Headed by the infamous Council of Ten, Venice's intelligence service operated with remarkable complexity and maturity, serving prominent functions such as operations, analysis, cryptography, and more. The book details the systematic attempts to organize a central intelligence service made up of state servants, informants, and amateur spies, who conducted stealthy operations across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa. The book explores the role of secrecy in knowledge exchange, revealing extraordinary measures deployed by the Venetian authorities to maintain state security, including torture, assassinations, and chemical warfare.

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