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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 92 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 Complete Guide to Living Your Italian Dream
    • By: Jefferson Foster
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Dreaming of sun-drenched piazzas, mouth-watering cuisine, and a lifestyle that prioritizes enjoyment over the rat race? This comprehensive guide ...

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    • By: Robert Edsel
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures....

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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 1,537 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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    • 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 214 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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    • 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 122 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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    • Its Rise and Fall
    • By: Christopher Hibbert
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • This enthralling book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 132 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 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 75 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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    • By: John Hooper
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • John Hooper's marvelously entertaining and perceptive new book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians....

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    • The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 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 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 17 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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    • Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
    • By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 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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    • 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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    • How Italian Food Became American
    • By: Ian MacAllen
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Red Sauce, Ian MacAllen traces the evolution of traditional Italian-American cuisine, often referred to as "red sauce Italian," from its origins in Italy to its transformation in America into a new, distinct cuisine....

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    • Death of a Superpower
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 767 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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    • 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 86 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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