عنوان

Venice's secret service :

(Number (ISBN

0191833827

(Number (ISBN

0192508822

(Number (ISBN

9780191833823

(Number (ISBN

9780192508829

Erroneous ISBN

0198791313

Erroneous ISBN

9780198791317

Title Proper

Venice's secret service :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

organising intelligence in the renaissance /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ioanna Iordanou.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) :

Other Physical Details

color illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances.0Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.

International Standard Book Number

9780198791317

Intelligence service-- Italy-- Venice-- History.

Intelligence service.

Venice (Italy), History.

Italy, Venice.

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Book number

Iordanou, Ioanna

Date of Transaction

20200822092502.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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