Art History Italy

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    • 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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    • Tracing the Renaissance, Unification, and the Lively Evolution of Art and Culture
    • By: Dominic Haynes
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bower
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Whether you’re a student of Italian history looking for a refresher or a brand-new learner looking for an introduction, this book is a concise, easy-to-follow overview of the major players, events, and forces in Italian history, from antiquity to today....

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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 1,541 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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    • 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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    • A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • 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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    • A Life of Pliny
    • By: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 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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    • How an Elusive 16th-Century Artist Became a Global Pop Icon
    • By: Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Christopher Heath Brown
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art....

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    • An Archaeological Thriller
    • By: Dave Bartell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A mysterious forger. A plot to empty the world’s museums. Can this champion of culture stop it before all our history is fake? A forensic audit ...

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    • The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
    • By: William E. Wallace
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....

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    • A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Volume 5
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 5
    • Length: 37 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 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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    • By: Judith Mackrell
    • Narrated by: Julia Franklin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned....

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    • The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
    • By: R.A. Scotti
    • Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • It was the splendor and the scandal of the age....

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    • By: Alessandro Barbero
    • Narrated by: Alessandro Benvenuti
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-21
    • Language: Italian
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante...

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    • Il romanzo di un genio ribelle
    • By: Massimo Polidoro
    • Narrated by: Massimo Polidoro
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-19
    • Language: Italian
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • È l'alba del XVI secolo. L'Italia è divisa in una miriade di regni litigiosi e incapaci di opporsi alle mire delle grandi potenze. Tra...

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    • Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
    • By: Shawn Levy
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made "Italian" a global synonym of taste....

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    • By: John Took
    • Narrated by: John Took
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • A Life rom Beginning to End: Biographies of Painters, Book 3
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Mike Nelson
    • Series: Biographies of Painters, Book 3
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The ingenious artist we know as Michelangelo lived during the Renaissance in Northern Italy, and you could say that he was indeed a Renaissance man - he was a painter, sculptor, poet, and engineer all rolled up into one....

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    • History - Food Pairing - 12 Wines Tasting (Colloquial Wines)
    • By: Liam Carroll
    • Narrated by: Allison Hicks
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Want to know more about Italian wines? Want to impress your friends and family with quirky facts? Want to discover new, exciting, passionate, innovative, and authentic wine makers, from vegan to organic....

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