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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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    • 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 69 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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    • 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: 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A New History
    • By: Professor Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 610 ratings
    • An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years....

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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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    • Europe's First Great Queen
    • By: Giles Tremlett
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • In 1474, a 23-year-old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the challenge of being a young female ruler....

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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 28 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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    • 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: 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 31 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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    • The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
    • By: Mario Livio
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of an ancient mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Molly Greeley
    • Narrated by: Ell Potter
    • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A mesmerizing novel set in the French royal court of Catherine de’ Medici during the Renaissance, which recreates the touching and surprising true story behind the Beauty and the Beast legend, from the acclaimed author of The Clergyman’s Wife and The Heiress....

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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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    • Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
    • By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean....

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    • How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
    • By: Thomas Cahill
    • Narrated by: Thomas Cahill
    • Series: The Hinges of History
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history - this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world....

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