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  • The Medici Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Medici

    • 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 1,549 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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  • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

    • 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 1,115 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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  • The Savage Storm Audiobook By James Holland cover art

    • The Savage Storm

    • The Battle for Italy 1943
    • By: James Holland
    • Narrated by: Al Murray
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings

    • Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war....

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  • The Inheritance of Rome Audiobook By Chris Wickham cover art

    • The Inheritance of Rome

    • 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 336 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 Borgias Audiobook By G. J. Meyer cover art

    • The Borgias

    • 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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  • Botticelli's Secret Audiobook By Joseph Luzzi cover art

    • Botticelli's Secret

    • 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 134 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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  • City of Fortune Audiobook By Roger Crowley cover art

    • City of Fortune

    • How Venice Rule the Seas
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 493 ratings
    • The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty....

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  • Rise and Fall of the Borgias Audiobook By William Landon, The Great Courses cover art

    • Rise and Fall of the Borgias

    • By: William Landon, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: William Landon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 892 ratings

    • While they were indeed ostentatious, calculating, worldly, cruel - and even, occasionally, murderous - you may be surprised to find that the Borgias were not terribly different from other powerful and ambitious families of their day....

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  • Brunelleschi's Dome Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • Brunelleschi's Dome

    • 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 Eternal City Audiobook By Ferdinand Addis cover art

    • The Eternal City

    • A History of Rome
    • By: Ferdinand Addis
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholicism, city of the artistic imagination - Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the 27 centuries of its existence....

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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

    • 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 91 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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  • The Shadow of Vesuvius Audiobook By Daisy Dunn cover art

    • The Shadow of Vesuvius

    • A Life of Pliny
    • By: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings

    • When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father....

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  • Death in Florence Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • Death in Florence

    • 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 518 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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  • The Borgias Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Borgias

    • 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 151 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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  • Gomorrah Audiobook By Roberto Saviano cover art

    • Gomorrah

    • 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 306 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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  • In the Name of Rome Audiobook By Adrian Goldsworthy cover art

    • In the Name of Rome

    • The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 595 ratings
    • Each chapter paints a fascinating portrait of a single general, offering in-depth insight into his leadership skills and victories as well as each one's pioneering strategies....

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  • Venice Audiobook By Professor Thomas F. Madden cover art

    • Venice

    • A New History
    • By: Professor Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years....

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  • Michelangelo, God's Architect Audiobook By William E. Wallace cover art

    • Michelangelo, God's Architect

    • The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
    • By: William E. Wallace
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings

    • Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....

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  • The History of Rome, Volume 1, Books 1 - 5 Audiobook By Titus Livy, William Masfen Roberts - translator cover art

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  • Cosa Nostra Audiobook By John Dickie cover art

    • Cosa Nostra

    • 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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