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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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: Walter Simmons
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Length: 20 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-01
    • Language: English
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    • Sticking out into the Mediterranean Sea, Italy has some of the nicest weather in Europe. It is famous for its art, architecture, and cuisine. Listeners will discover the physical geography of Italy through descriptions of the landscape, waters, and coasts.

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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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    • 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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    • A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
    • Written by: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 2021-01-29
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It is not an easy job to draw the border between the history of Italy and the history of Rome. In so many places, the two political and geographical entities collide. They wouldn’t be possible without each other, but they each have their own story....

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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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    • 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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    • Canada's Epic World War II Battle
    • Written by: Mark Zuehlke
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2012-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs....

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    • Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
    • Written by: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2022-06-07
    • Language: English
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    • In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • Written by: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943
    • Written by: Mark Zuehlke
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 2013-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • On July 10, 1943, two great Allied armadas of over 2,000 ships readied to invade Sicily. This was Operation Husky....

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