Venice’s Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance
Dr Ionanna Iordanou, Oxford Brookes University @IoannaIordanou According to conventional wisdom, systematised intelligence and espionage are ‘modern’ phenomena, spanning from the eve of the First World War to the present. Venice’s Secret Service overturns this academic orthodoxy, recounting the arresting story of one of the world’s earliest centrally organised state intelligence organisations. Headquartered in … Continued