Renaissance Politics

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    • Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
    • By: James Hankins
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars....

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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 3,451 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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    • 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 1,126 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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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 467 ratings
    • This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

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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 647 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 32 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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    • How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Miles J. Unger
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Niccolò Machiavelli is the most influential political writer of all time. His name has become synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was a deeply humane and perceptive writer....

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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 Art of Teaching People What to Fear
    • By: Patrick Boucheron
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time....

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    • Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....

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    • Passion and Politics in Early Renaissance France, Part II of the Anne of Brittany Series
    • By: Rozsa Gaston
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Series: Anne of Brittany, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is the love of King Louis XII of France's life. Too bad he's already married. While his annulment proceedings create Europe's most sensational scandal of 1498, Anne returns to Brittany to take back control of her duchy....

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    • A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
    • By: Rachel E. Cargle
    • Narrated by: Rachel E. Cargle
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before just don’t work for us anymore, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest....

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    • Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance
    • By: Alex Jones, Kent Heckenlively - contributor
    • Narrated by: Simon Sharp
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • In The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance, the most persecuted man on Earth, Alex Jones, gives you the good news about the failing plans of the globalists to control humanity....

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    • By: C.J. Sansom
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Series: The Shardlake Series, Book 7
    • Length: 37 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • The nominal king, Edward VI, is 11 years old. His uncle, Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Edward's regent and Protector. In the kingdom, radical Protestants are driving the old religion into extinction, while the Protector's prolonged war with Scotland has led to hyperinflation....

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    • A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy
    • By: Laura Morelli
    • Narrated by: Reba Buhr, Christa Lewis, Paul Woodson, P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II....

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    • The Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone....

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    • A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
    • By: Anthony Gottlieb
    • Narrated by: Anthony Gottlieb
    • Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • This landmark study of early Western thought now appears with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. Author Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity.....

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