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    • Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
    • Leonardo's Brain uses Da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity....

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    • The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • By: Thomas Cahill
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Hinges of History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science....

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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 162 ratings
    • Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of an ancient mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887....

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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 30 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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    • Thomas Kydd, Book 24
    • By: Julian Stockwin
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 24
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • 1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London, he's greeted by the Prince Regent, who, despite Kydd's protestations that he's happy with his present command, insists he be given a bigger ship....

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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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    • Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
    • By: Benjamin Blech, Roy Doliner
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world - the Sistine Chapel ceiling....

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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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    • The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
    • By: Gavin Menzies
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Robert Edsel
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Sarah Dunant
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • It is 1502, and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI....

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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: Karen Brooks
    • Narrated by: Willow Nash
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted....

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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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    • The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
    • By: Julia Fox
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII....

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    • A Military History
    • By: William Urban
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....

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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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