Renaissance Lives

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    • A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
    • By: Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Heather Wilds
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 572 ratings
    • On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 642 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
    • By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • There has been a great deal written about Tudor queens, but less so about those women who surrounded the throne, who may have held even more power and influence than those who actually wore the golden crown. This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court....

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    • Assassin's Creed, Book 1
    • By: Oliver Bowden
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: Assassin's Creed, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120 ratings
    • Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • The Life of Vittoria Colonna
    • By: Ramie Targoff
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Ramie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend. They exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and art...

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    • Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
    • By: Ingrid Rowland, Noah Charney
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents - a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar - but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art....

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    • Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Sarah Bradford
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Neither a vicious monster nor a seductive pawn, Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd, determined woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day....

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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 594 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: George Herman
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • .“Here's a marvelous treat, the wittiest historical mystery … introducing the unlikely sleuthing team of Leonardo da Vinci and a young dwarf, ...

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    • The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger
    • By: Greg Steinmetz
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the 16th century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly 2 percent of European GDP....

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    • The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
    • By: Julia Fox
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn....

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    • By: Miles Cameron
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 06-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A standalone audio exclusive set in the world of the Red Knight. Taking place in Etrusca, Terra Antica, thousands of miles from Alba and Liviapolis, an ancient power is rediscovered....

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    • The Life of Hans Holbein
    • By: Franny Moyle
    • Narrated by: Alison Larkin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realized portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, his advisors Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, his wives Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies....

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    • Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
    • By: Liza Picard
    • Narrated by: Liza Picard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....

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    • By: Laura Marx Fitzgerald
    • Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Gail Carson Levine
    • Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Surrounded by her large family, Loma is happy living in the judería of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and wants nothing more than to someday have a family of her own. Still, when her intimidating grandfather, her Belo, decides to bring her along on his travels, she's excited to join him....

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