Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9370-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
The year is 1622. Anxiety is high in the city of Venice. Rumors of treason flourish. The noble Antonio Foscarini stands accused and pays the ultimate price. Gerolamo Vano, General of Spies, provides the evidence. But who is really guilty? By the end of the year, Vano is swinging from the gallows in Piazza San Marco, while Foscarini is absolved posthumously. Pistols! Treason! Murder! uncovers the shadowy world of seventeenth-century espionage and the truth behind the most infamous miscarriage of justice in the history of Venice.
Including vividly illustrated comic strips, accounts of the author's bar tour around contemporary Venice, and painstaking detective work, Jonathan Walker’s story of the rise and fall of a master spy is compelling and highly original.
In untangling the career of the master spy Vano, Walker invites the reader into the historian's task of piecing together evidence from incomplete archival sources, making sense of motives, coming to terms with the story, and knowing when the job is done. Aspiring historians will find the methods Walker used to uncover this fascinating story invaluable in their own historical quests.
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1. Between the Columns-sets the scene
2. Why Vano Matters-identifies the man responsible for a famous miscarriage of justice
3. Dissection / Resurrection-compares historians with pathologists and mediums
4. The Hero-provides more information on our protagonist
5. Idiolect-celebrates Vano's peculiar writing style
6. Odd One Out- -comments on Vandos use of repetitive motifs SCaffe Rosso, 7.00 p.m. -dialogue: Why were the Venetians afraid of the Spanish?
8. The File-describes our major source, Vano's spy reports
9. The Inquisitors of State-introduces Vano's employers
10. Diplomacy-contains basic information on seventeenth-century embassies and diplomats
11. Honour Among Spies-two men die to advance Vano's career
12. Da Baffo, 8.45 p.m.-dialogue: What could you buy with a ducat, and how much did spies earn?
13. Rvals—compares Vano's career with that of other spies active in seven teenth-century Venice
14. Alchernmy-Vano turns lead into gold
15. Winks and Blinks -discusses the relationship between signal and noise in spy reports
16. Special Delivery-analyses the subtexts of two spy reports
17. Fiddlei's Elbow Irish Pub, 11.00 p.m.-dialogue: Were ordinary people aware of spies?
18. Running Alternatives-explores the hidden connections between an attempted assassination and a convoluted conversation
19. Trace-suggests that walking and reading are related activities, and analyses the handwriting of some of our protagonists
20. Paradiso Perduto, 12.05 a.m.-dialogue: What is missing from spy reports?
21. Street Theatre-compares spying with melodrama
22. Desire-considers spying as a form of seduction
23. 2 + 2 = 5-the noble Antonio Foscarini is unjustly condemned to death
24. Da Aldo, 1.10 a.m.-dialogue: Were the Venetians good at spying?
25. Spying and Modernity-Vano is revealed as a key figure for understanding the latter condition
26. I Spy, with My Little Eye-draws some preliminary conclusions
27. Interupted Sentences-Vano dies, and questions remain unanswered
28. Pistols Treason Murder'-the clock is turned back, and Vano enjoys one last triumph, while Giulio Cazzari prophesies his own death, and thereby brings it about
29. Legacy-Foscarini has a street named after him, and Vano does not
30. General of Sies -Vano is unofficially promoted
31. Doctor Frankenstein-everybody dies
