Venice’s central intelligence organization was engineered by the Council of Ten (Consiglio dei Dieci: see Fig. 0.1). Established in 1310, ...

Introduction to Venice’s Secret Service Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance Venice’s Secret Service Organizing Intelligence in...

Why Venice?  In her pioneering book entitled Political Economies of Empire, Maria Fusaro postulated the bold, yet apt proposition th...

It’s only a matter of luck where you wash up in history. What was once Babylon is now Baghdad.¹ Unlike most early modern European states, ...

Renaissance Venice’s Politico-Economic Landscape For a maritime empire built on commercial transactions, trade was a principal ...

The fifteenth century saw the revolution of printing and publishing. Rapidly, Renaissance Europe became obsessed with news that arrived fr...

Archival Records As this book aims to explore the way Venice’s intelligence organization, originating in the Doge’s palace, expanded a...

Methodology and Sources   In terms of chronology, the book deals with the time span between 1500 and 1630, a period when the Counc...

Unless otherwise stated, all the dates used in this book have been modified to follow the Gregorian calendar, with the calendar year comme...

Following the grand naval expeditions for new passageways to the East launched by the crowned heads of the Iberian Peninsula, the ri...

Venice’s central intelligence organization was engineered by the Council of Ten (Consiglio dei Dieci: see Fig. 0.1). Established in 1310, ...

Introduction to Venice’s Secret Service Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance Venice’s Secret Service Organizing Intelligence in...

It’s only a matter of luck where you wash up in history. What was once Babylon is now Baghdad.¹ Unlike most early modern European states, ...

Why Venice?  In her pioneering book entitled Political Economies of Empire, Maria Fusaro postulated the bold, yet apt proposition th...