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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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    • A Novel (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels)
    • By: Philippa Gregory
    • Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Alex Kingston, Madeleine Leslay
    • Series: The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, Book 15
    • Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 855 ratings
    • Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary. Though promised protection, Mary, perceived as a serious threat to the English crown, is soon imprisoned by her former friend as a “guest” in the house of George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury....

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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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    • The Story of the Tudor Queens
    • By: Roland Hui
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era. In the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens....

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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 268 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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    • A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Volume 5
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 5
    • Length: 37 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 589 ratings
    • The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 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: Addie Thorley
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Tim Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 920 ratings
    • After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, 17-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: They're not heroes of the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. She herself included....

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    • A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
    • By: Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 763 ratings
    • In her madcap chronicle, acclaimed popular historian and author Ruth Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul in Elizabethan England....

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    • 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 136 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Flora Carr
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom....

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    • A Life Sacred and Profane
    • By: Andrew Graham-Dixon
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 471 ratings
    • In the tradition of John Richardson's Picasso, a commanding new biography of the Italian master's tumultuous life and mysterious death....

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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: 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 823 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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    • 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 717 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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    • 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 796 ratings
    • Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for 30 years....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Stephanie Storey
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo's fiercest rival - the young, brilliant painter of perfection, Raphael....

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    • By: Jen DeLuca
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
    • Series: Well Met, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 422 ratings
    • Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother....

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