Council of Ten

Venice

Discussed in 2 episodes Wikidata (Q547077) →

Episodes

#5580: Before the Word Spy Existed: Venice's Intelligence Machine

Venice ran a centralised spy service with an archive, a spy network, and a counterintelligence body — in the 1400s.

Main topic Sep 26
#5566: Venice: The City That Was a Supply Chain

Venice wasn't romantic — it was a logistics problem with a paint job. How a lagoon empire survived 1,100 years.

Sep 26