Renaissance History

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jerry Brotton
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
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    • In this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and interaction on a global scale....

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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 1,604 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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    • A Captivating Guide to a Remarkable Period in European History, Including Stories of People Such as Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Shakespeare, and Leonardo da Vinci
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Renaissance, then pay attention....

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    • How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
    • By: Paul Robert Walker
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • Joining the best sellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance....

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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 610 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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    • The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • By: Thomas Cahill
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Hinges of History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science....

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    • The Contest for the Center of the World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,156 ratings
    • Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean....

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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
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    • 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 Myth of a Golden Age
    • By: Ada Palmer
    • Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-25
    • Language: English
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    • An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.

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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
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    • 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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    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,500 ratings
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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    • By: Walter Pater
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Published in 1873, Studies in the History of the Renaissance is considered one of the most influential works in the field of aestheticism. The book is a collection of essays that explore various artists of the Renaissance period, focusing primarily on the art, culture, and philosophy of the time.

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