2009, ISBN: 0801893704

[EAN: 9780801893704], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], PHILOSOPHY LOGIC LINGUISTICS, 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the da… More...

[EAN: 9780801893704], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], PHILOSOPHY LOGIC LINGUISTICS, 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the dank Venetian alleyways we pursue the elusive and dangerous spy-master Vano in a story that is as lustily exhilarating as the original Sex Pistols'-Iain McCalman Pistols! Treason! Murder!is a highly original biography of Gerolamo Vano, one of Venice's first spy masters. Through surveillance reports and seventeenth-century archives, historian Jonathan Walker uncovers a coded world of politics and espionage, terror and intense paranoia. For survival and in the perfection of his art, Gerolamo Vano developed superb skills in spinning fictions. His deceits led to the arrest and execution of guilty and innocent men alike, before he himself was put on trial in 1622. Walker brings Vano to life and pieces together the universe through which he moved. Interested in pushing the boundaries of how history is told, the book includes playful comic strips, transcripts of imaginary conversations and a bar-crawl around contemporary Venice. Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall. 1.783 Centimeters X 15.2 Centimeters X 22.8 Centimeters, Books<

2009, ISBN: 0801893704

[EAN: 9780801893704], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], PHILOSOPHY LOGIC LINGUISTICS, 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the da… More...

[EAN: 9780801893704], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press], PHILOSOPHY LOGIC LINGUISTICS, 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the dank Venetian alleyways we pursue the elusive and dangerous spy-master Vano in a story that is as lustily exhilarating as the original Sex Pistols'-Iain McCalman Pistols! Treason! Murder!is a highly original biography of Gerolamo Vano, one of Venice's first spy masters. Through surveillance reports and seventeenth-century archives, historian Jonathan Walker uncovers a coded world of politics and espionage, terror and intense paranoia. For survival and in the perfection of his art, Gerolamo Vano developed superb skills in spinning fictions. His deceits led to the arrest and execution of guilty and innocent men alike, before he himself was put on trial in 1622. Walker brings Vano to life and pieces together the universe through which he moved. Interested in pushing the boundaries of how history is told, the book includes playful comic strips, transcripts of imaginary conversations and a bar-crawl around contemporary Venice. Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall. 1.783 Centimeters X 15.2 Centimeters X 22.8 Centimeters, Books<

ISBN: 9780801893704

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 Spie… More...

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. Media >, [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press]<