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    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • Written by: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

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    • The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
    • Written by: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2016-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Each chapter paints a fascinating portrait of a single general, offering in-depth insight into his leadership skills and victories as well as each one's pioneering strategies....

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    • Written by: Jacob Burckhardt
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2006-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this landmark study of Italy from the 14th through the early 16th centuries, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt chronicles the rise of Florence and Venice as powerful city-states....

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    • Written by: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2003-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo...

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    • A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
    • Written by: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2014-01-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world....

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    • Death of a Superpower
    • Written by: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2014-12-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the greater good of the state....

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    • A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Volume 5
    • Written by: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 5
    • Length: 37 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2014-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance....

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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • Written by: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • A Mediterranean History
    • Written by: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2021-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
    • Written by: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2015-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Death in Florence illuminates one of the defining moments in Western history - the bloody and dramatic story of the battle for the soul of Renaissance Florence....

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    • The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
    • Written by: Joseph Luzzi
    • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it....

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    • The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
    • Written by: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that the Medici were enlightened rulers of the Renaissance is a fiction that has now acquired the status of historical fact. In truth, the Medici were devious and immoral tyrants....

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    • The Memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger
    • Written by: Sepp de Giampietro, Lawrence Paterson - foreword, Eva Burke - translator
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Brandenburgers were Hitler's Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored....

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    • From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy
    • Written by: Michael Kulikowski
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century....

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    • Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943
    • Written by: John Gooch
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-03
    • Language: English
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    • While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa....

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    • Sex, Drugs, and Guns on the Mafia Coast
    • Written by: Barbie Latza Nadeau
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-13
    • Language: English
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    • Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules, or weapon smugglers....

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    • The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
    • Written by: Andrew Stewart
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-31
    • Language: English
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    • Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa....

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    • Written by: Robert Edsel
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2013-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures....

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    • Written by: John Took
    • Narrated by: John Took
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-09
    • Language: English
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    • Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of love." The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work....

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