Italy Biography

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Life of a Revolutionary
    • Written by: Giuseppe Fiori, Tom Nairn - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2021-07-06
    • Language: English
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    • Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early 30s, was arrested by Mussolini’s police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death 10 years later....

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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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    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2017-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

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    • One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
    • Written by: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2006-01-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

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    • A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
    • Written by: Roberto Saviano
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2008-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A groundbreaking major best seller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra....

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    • From Venice to Xanadu
    • Written by: Laurence Bergreen
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2007-09-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West....

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    • Written by: Frances Mayes
    • Narrated by: Frances Mayes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 1999-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • More than 20 years ago, Frances Mayes introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys....

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    • The Hidden History
    • Written by: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2013-04-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone....

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    • How to Realize Your Dreams and Reinvent Your Life
    • Written by: Debbie Travis
    • Narrated by: Debbie Travis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • If you feel stuck with no idea what you should do next, lifestyle celebrity and TV pioneer Debbie Travis's new book is for you. Drawing on the tough (sometimes hilarious) lessons Debbie learned in her own leap into a new way of living, she's created an inspiring roadmap for change....

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    • The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia
    • Written by: John Dickie
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity....

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    • Written by: Maria Coletta McLean
    • Narrated by: Carol Schneider
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2013-03-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • After 64 years, Mezzabotte Coletta, a retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory, is retuning to his native Italia....

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    • Written by: John Berendt
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2005-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • It is John Berendt and only John Berendt who can capture Venice, a city of masks, a city of riddles....

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    • Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
    • Written by: Elizabeth Lev
    • Narrated by: Edita Brychta
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this glittering biography of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince, Elizabeth Lev reexamines her extraordinary life and accomplishments....

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    • The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
    • Written by: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial - and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages....

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    • A Life of Pliny
    • Written by: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father....

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