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The Venetian Spy Network That Spied on Rome
While we have explored the grand engineering of Roman aqueducts and the political machinations of the Borgia popes, this episode turns our gaze to a quieter, more dangerous war fought in the shadows of Renaissance Europe. In the early sixteenth century, Venice was not just a trading republic but a master intelligence agency, maintaining a vast network of spies known as the Tre Savi all'Arco. We follow the trail of these agents as they infiltrated the court of Pope Leo X and gathered critical information about the military movements of Charles V and the internal fractures of the Habsburg…
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