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    • Penguin Monarchs, Book 2
    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Series: Penguin Monarchs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. In this revealing new account, John Guy explores how Henry himself understood the world and his place in it....

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    • Fortunes of France: Book 2
    • By: Robert Merle
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
    • Series: Fortunes of France, Book 2
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Montpellier in 1566 - only fools walk the streets at night unarmed while a profession of faith in the wrong company can lead to a knife in the back....

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    • The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment
    • By: Charles Freeman
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times), explores the rebirth of Western thought in the centuries that followed the demise of the classical era....

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    • House of Niccolò, Book 5
    • By: Dorothy Dunnett
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Series: The House of Niccolo, Book 5
    • Length: 29 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Scotland, 1468: a nation at the edge of Europe, a civilization on the threshold of the Modern Age. Merchants, musicians, politicians, and pageantry fill the court of King James III. In its midst, Nicholas seeks to avenge his bride's claim that she carries the bastard of his archenemy....

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    • The Miramonde Series, Book 3
    • By: Amy Maroney
    • Narrated by: Meg Price
    • Series: The Miramonde Series, Book 3
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the city of her dreams. But Bayonne is nothing like she imagined. Navigating a dangerous world ruled by merchants and bishops, she struggles to reignite her painting career....

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    • His Life on Silver Street
    • By: Charles Nicholl
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster; it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded....

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    • A Novel of Renaissance Venice
    • By: Damian Dibben
    • Narrated by: Ben Allen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione “Zorzo” Barbarelli’s career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up.

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    • By: Natasha Solomons
    • Narrated by: Sheila Atim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love....

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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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    • By: Leonardo Da Vinci
    • Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • 'Thoughts On Art and Life' by Leonardo Da Vinci is a fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissance. There are sections covering the great man's thoughts on life, art, and science....

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    • The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • By: Thomas Cahill
    • Narrated by: Thomas Cahill
    • Series: The Hinges of History (Abridged), Book 5
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • On visits to the great cities of Europe, Thomas Cahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world....

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    • The Legend and the Man
    • By: Harold Lamb
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Charlemagne was easily one of the most fascinating figures of Western civilization, as well as the most heroic and romantic. The 47 years of his reign marked some of the most significant and far reaching events of the Middle Ages....

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    • House of Niccolò Series, Book 2
    • By: Dorothy Dunnett
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Series: The House of Niccolo, Book 2
    • Length: 23 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In 1461, Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing from the crown of the Ottoman Empire. But trouble lies ahead....

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    • The Giants of Science, Book 1
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: The Giants of Science
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a 15th-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children’s ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a scientist....

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    • Tales of Cesare Borgia
    • By: Rafael Sabatini
    • Narrated by: Wesley Scott
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Cesare Borgia, former cardinal, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, has been a figure of awe and scorn for generations. Seemingly compelled to explore this fascinating historical figure's true nature, Rafael Sabatini brought Borgia life as no one had before....

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    • By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock
    • Narrated by: Sam Devereaux, Hope Newhouse
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Two unlikely friends - Federico, in 16th-century Rome, and Bee, in present-day New Jersey - are linked through an amiable cat, Leonardo Da Vinci’s mysterious wardrobe, and an eerily perfect sketch of Bee....

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    • By: Clare Marchant
    • Narrated by: Hattie Ladbury
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Though Eleanor is not wealthy, the saffron spice she grows for her new husband is more valuable than gold....

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