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  • The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women Audiobook By Elizabeth Norton cover art

    • The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women

    • 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 663 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 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 1,564 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 History of the Renaissance World Audiobook By Susan Wise Bauer cover art

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  • Fatal Discord Audiobook By Michael Massing cover art

    • Fatal Discord

    • Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
    • By: Michael Massing
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 34 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings

    • This deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history examines two of the greatest minds of European history - Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther - and their heated rivalry....

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  • Henry VIII: King and Court Audiobook By Alison Weir cover art

    • Henry VIII: King and Court

    • 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 477 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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  • The Swerve Audiobook By Stephen Greenblatt cover art

    • The Swerve

    • 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 3,467 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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  • Mary Boleyn Audiobook By Alison Weir cover art

    • Mary Boleyn

    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife....

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  • Young Queens Audiobook By Leah Redmond Chang cover art

    • Young Queens

    • Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
    • By: Leah Redmond Chang
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
    • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings

    • Following the intertwined stories of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary Queen of Scots from girlhood through young adulthood, Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state....

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  • Empires of the Sea Audiobook By Roger Crowley cover art

    • Empires of the Sea

    • 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 1,139 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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  • 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 721 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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  • The Verge Audiobook By Patrick Wyman cover art

    • The Verge

    • Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
    • By: Patrick Wyman
    • Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,110 ratings

    • The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn....

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  • Blood, Fire & Gold Audiobook By Estelle Paranque cover art

    • Blood, Fire & Gold

    • The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
    • By: Estelle Paranque
    • Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

    • A beautifully thorough examination into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as well as the course of history.

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  • The Rival Queens Audiobook By Nancy Goldstone cover art

    • The Rival Queens

    • Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
    • By: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 804 ratings
    • Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for 30 years....

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  • The Florentines Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Florentines

    • 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 96 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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  • Tudors Audiobook By Peter Ackroyd cover art

    • Tudors

    • The History of England From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I: History of England, Book 2
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Series: The History of England, Book 2
    • Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • From Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I, the age of the Tudors comes to vivid life in audio....

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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 497 ratings
    • The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty....

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  • Catherine de' Medici Audiobook By Mary Hollingsworth cover art

    • Catherine de' Medici

    • The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings.

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  • The House of Medici Audiobook By Christopher Hibbert cover art

    • The House of Medici

    • 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 157 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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  • Galileo's Daughter Audiobook By Dava Sobel cover art

    • Galileo's Daughter

    • A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world.....

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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 154 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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