Secrecy, for the good of all, was the cornerstone around which the whole history of the Republic of Venice was based. VENICE SECRETS Crime & Justice is the exclusive catalog of the Venetian exhibition that tells about the Inquisitory rites and torture, that offers the opportunity, for the first time, to travel back in time to a mysterious, very often indecipherable, dark side that was the justice and the daily life of men and women in medieval and modern times.