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Tomte · 2019-09-13 · Original thread
I was so sure that the article would be by Ioanna Iordanou, but it isn't.

She is about to publish a book about this:

Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance

Amazon says it will be out in October.

https://www.amazon.de/Venices-Secret-Service-Intelligence-Re...

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