Venice’s Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance 1st Edition Loanna Lordanou

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• ISBN 10: 0192508830
• ISBN 13: 9780192508836
• Author: Loanna Lordanou

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. Official 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.

Table of contents:

1. Venice and Venetian Intelligence in the European Panorama
Renaissance Venice’s Politico-Economic Landscape
Venice as an Information Centre in Early Modern Europe
Sixteenth-Century Europe and the Rise of Secret Services
Conclusion
2. State Secrecy: A Venetian Virtue
The Ten’s Regulations on Secrecy
The Illusion of State Secrecy
Masks, Lions’ Mouths, and Secret Denunciations
Secrecy as an Enabler of Knowledge Exchange
Conclusion
3. Renaissance Venice’s Intelligence Organization
Organizing and Managing Venice’s Secret Service
Correspondence as a Tool of Management and Organization of Work
Venice’s Ducal Chancery and the Cancelleria Secreta
Organizational Secrecy
Venice’s Central Intelligence Organization
Conclusion
4. Venice’s Department of Cryptology
A Brief Historical Overview of Cryptology
The Diplomatic Use of Ciphers in the Renaissance
Venice’s Cryptology Department
The Professionalization of Cryptology in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Conclusion
5. Venice’s Secret Agents
Spie, Confidenti, Exploratori
Venice’s Secret Agents
Spying in Early Modern Venice: A Profession?
Conclusion
6. Extraordinary Measures
Venetian Counter-Intelligence
The Terrors of the Ten
Other Tricks and Tactics
The Normalization of Extreme Measures

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