WRITTEN CIPHERS USED BY THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE, LUIGI PASINI, 1872. Translated.

THE ORIGINAL BOOK: DELLE SCRITTURE IN CIFRA USATE DALLA REPUBBLICA VENETA, DI LUIGI PASINI.

TRANSLATED  : WRITTEN CIPHERS USED BY THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE, LUIGI PASINI, 1872. TRANSLATED, 2021. D.P.J.A. SCHEERS.

ISBN: 9798700119559. Imprint: Independently published

Published 25 jan. 2021. English. 54 pages.Size: 15.6 x 0.33 x 23.39 cm

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The work of archivist Luigi Pasini, published in 1872, during his work in the Archives of Venice is translated. It provides a glimpse of the ciphers in the Archives and the hidden treasures of Venetian cryptography. It focusses on the translation and provides some insights on the Venetian Cancelleria and the earliest ciphers, of which the oldest example is from the year 1411.

Index

Introduction

The Republic of Venice

Original title and origin

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Ciphered writings in antiquities

Demonstration of double cipher alphabet

CHAPTER 3: First and most famous ciphered Venetian documents

Chapter 4: Cipher instructions

Chapter 5: Ciphers from mid-16th cent. and dispatches to the Senate between 1554 – 1566

Chapter 6: The dispatches of the Venetian Ambassadors from the Foreign Courts directed to the Senate

6.1 England

6.2 France

6.3 Spain

6.4 Constantinople

Chapter 7: Last cipher method of the Venetian Republic, and places where they were written by last cipher clerks

Chapter 8: How the secrecy of the cipher was seen

Chapter 9: Treatises with ciphers, prints and manuscripts

9.1 Modern works

Chapter 10: People that work with ciphers in the present century

Appendix : Tavola 1-4