Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern PoliticsThis is a unique investigation of the political uses of different forms of communication oral, manuscript, and printed in sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice. De Vivo uses a rich and diverse range of sources from council debates to leaks and spies' reports, from printed pamphlets to graffiti and rumors to demonstrate just how closely political communication was intertwined with the wider social and economic life of the city. The book also engages