Venice's Secret Service

Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance

(Author) Ioanna Iordanou
Format: Hardcover
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Ioanna Iordanou traces the remarkable development of Venetian intelligence in the city-state system of Northern Italy, contesting that early-modern Venice was home of the world's first centrally-organized state intelligence service, setting a framework that has been instrumental in the creation of modern intelligence.

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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780198791317
Publish year:
2019
Publish date:
Oct. 28, 2019

Ioanna Iordanou

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