Reporting from the frontier. The conspiracy of the renegades between the Republic of Genoa, the Hispanic Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire (1562-1571)

The creation of the 'conjura de los renegados' in 1562 gave the Spanish Monarchy the opportunity to have for the first time ever a network of spies based in Constantinople whose mission, at first exclusively, was to send news of the sultan's military projects. Soon, other European kingdoms and republics benefited from their services. Based on their own writings, this study has analysed the connection between this group also known as the occulti - and the Republic of Genoa, in order to study the profile of these spies, the communicative strategies used to send their information and the use given to their secret 'avisos'.