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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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    • 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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    • 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 71 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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    • 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 52 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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    • 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 126 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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    • 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 266 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 468 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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    • 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 83 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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    • Historical Novels
    • By: Philippa Gregory
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
    • Series: Historical Novels, Book 1
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl comes a book about the devastating consequences of the slave trade in 19th century England....

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    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • A dramatic account of some of the most notorious figures of medieval and Renaissance history who ruled from the Eternal City. It is sure to grip fans of John Julius Norwich, Tom Holland, and Peter Ackroyd....

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    • How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
    • By: Paul Robert Walker
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Joining the best sellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance....

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

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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 28 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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    • 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 52 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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