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  • The Medici Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Medici

    • 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 1,541 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 Savage Storm Audiobook By James Holland cover art

    • The Savage Storm

    • 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 71 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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  • Mussolini's Daughter Audiobook By Caroline Moorehead cover art

    • Mussolini's Daughter

    • The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
    • By: Caroline Moorehead
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
    • Series: The Resistance Quartet
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history....

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  • The Borgias Audiobook By G. J. Meyer cover art

    • The Borgias

    • 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 719 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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  • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

    • 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 1,110 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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  • Brunelleschi's Dome Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • Brunelleschi's Dome

    • 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 216 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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  • Cosa Nostra Audiobook By John Dickie cover art

    • Cosa Nostra

    • A History of the Sicilian Mafia
    • By: John Dickie
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that feels like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have dared to tread....

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  • City of Fortune Audiobook By Roger Crowley cover art

    • City of Fortune

    • 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 492 ratings
    • The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty....

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  • Botticelli's Secret Audiobook By Joseph Luzzi cover art

    • Botticelli's Secret

    • The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
    • By: Joseph Luzzi
    • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 134 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 Inheritance of Rome Audiobook By Chris Wickham cover art

    • The Inheritance of Rome

    • 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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  • The Eternal City Audiobook By Ferdinand Addis cover art

    • The Eternal City

    • 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 23 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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  • Venice Audiobook By Professor Thomas F. Madden cover art

    • Venice

    • 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 620 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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  • The Florentines Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Florentines

    • From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings

    • The Florentines presents a sweeping and magisterial 400-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance....

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  • The Borgias Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Borgias

    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 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 Bookseller of Florence Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • The Bookseller of Florence

    • The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings

    • The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers....

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  • Sicily Audiobook By John Julius Norwich cover art

    • Sicily

    • 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 184 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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  • Rise and Fall of the Borgias Audiobook By William Landon, The Great Courses cover art

    • Rise and Fall of the Borgias

    • By: William Landon, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: William Landon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 891 ratings

    • While they were indeed ostentatious, calculating, worldly, cruel - and even, occasionally, murderous - you may be surprised to find that the Borgias were not terribly different from other powerful and ambitious families of their day....

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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

    • Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings

    • Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history....

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  • In the Name of Rome Audiobook By Adrian Goldsworthy cover art

    • In the Name of Rome

    • 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 593 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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  • The Venetians Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Venetians

    • A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world....

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