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    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,534 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 Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 718 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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    • Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice
    • By: Maria Laurino
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A powerful church. An acquiescent government. In The Price of Children, investigative journalist Maria Laurino details the shocking story of mothers and children deceived and exploited as directed by the highest levels of the Vatican.

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    • The Battle for Italy 1943
    • By: James Holland
    • Narrated by: Al Murray
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war....

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    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,108 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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    • An Island at the Crossroads of History
    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: Michael Healy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • "Sicily," said Goethe, "is the key to everything." It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East....

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    • A New History
    • By: Professor Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 616 ratings
    • An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years....

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    • Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
    • By: Chris Wickham
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • Historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. The Inheritance of Rome presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created....

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    • A History of Rome
    • By: Ferdinand Addis
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholicism, city of the artistic imagination - Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the 27 centuries of its existence....

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    • How Venice Rule the Seas
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty....

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    • The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
    • By: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians....

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    • By: Marcus Aurelius
    • Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor AD 161-180, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy....

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    • 1431-1519
    • By: Christopher Hibbert
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 514 ratings
    • The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy....

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    • By: Christopher Duggan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the present day....

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    • How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius....

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    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Julie Maisey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Conspiracy, intrigue and faction-fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the extraordinary story of the papal conclave in 1559 - the longest and bitterest of the 16th century....

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    • A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
    • By: David Gilmour
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake....

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    • By: John Berendt
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 564 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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    • The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 590 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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