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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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    • 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 28 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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    • 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 123 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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    • 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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    • 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 278 ratings
    • When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 155 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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    • 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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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 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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    • 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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    • 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 768 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
    • By: Roberto Saviano
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 305 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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    • Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943
    • By: John Gooch
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa....

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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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    • Pure City
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land....

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    • The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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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