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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive 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 profoundly as they shaped the course of history....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 255 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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    • 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 281 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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    • New Places to Discover in Italy
    • By: Frances Mayes
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Frances Mayes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Best-selling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine....

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    • By: Guy Gavriel Kay
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 822 ratings
    • International best-selling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition....

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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 563 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 Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa
    • By: Laura Morelli
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Caroline Hewitt, Paul Woodson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by 500 years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa - with unintended consequences....

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    • By: Jennifer McNabb, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Jennifer McNabb
    • Length: 26 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • While it’s easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full, rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without investigating the period's politics, its spirituality, its philosophies, its economics....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Simone van der Vlugt
    • Narrated by: Imogen Church
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Following the sudden death of her husband, 25-year-old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family....

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    • By: Clare Marchant
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • When thirty-six-year-old Robyn Willoughby discovers a blood-stained Tudor map in her father’s antique map shop, desperate for a distraction from her problems, she decides to investigate. But as Robyn delves into the mystery, she finds herself caught up in a centuries-old secret....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 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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    • 1431-1519
    • By: Christopher Hibbert
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy....

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    • 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 508 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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    • 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 483 ratings
    • The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty....

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    • Tradescant Novels, Book 1
    • By: Philippa Gregory
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Series: Tradescant Series, Book 1
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • John Tradescant’s fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in 17th-century England, but it is his clear-sighted honesty and loyalty that make him an invaluable servant. As an informal confidant of Sir Robert Cecil, adviser to King James I, he witnesses the making of history....

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    • Birthplace of the Modern Mind
    • By: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,021 ratings
    • Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome....

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    • House of Niccolò Series, Book 1
    • By: Dorothy Dunnett
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Series: The House of Niccolo, Book 1
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In this first book of The House of Niccolò series, the author of the Lymond Chronicles introduces a new hero, Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire....

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    • By: Ovid
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends....

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