Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Diego Guzmán de Silva and Sixteenth-century Venice -- Oxenstierna's Spies -- 'Woeful Knight' -- Nathaniel Hooke and the Dynamics of Covert Operations in Eighteenth-century France -- The Fallen Politician's Way Back In -- Giacomo Casanova and the Venetian Inquisitors -- Notes -- Index.