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    • A Financial History of the World
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,327 ratings
    • Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance....

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    • How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius....

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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 590 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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    • 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 433 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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    • 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 921 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 Captivating Guide to the History of Italy and Rome
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of Italy and Rome, then this audiobook is for you. It includes two books: History of Italy and History of Rome. It covers topics ranging from the founding and early settlements to the modern history....

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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 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 612 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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    • Living History Library
    • By: Robert Reilly
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Red Hugh was a true champion for Irish liberty from Queen Elizabeth's constricting reign in the late 1580's and beyond....

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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 474 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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    • 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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    • A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • It is not an easy job to draw the border between the history of Italy and the history of Rome. In so many places, the two political and geographical entities collide. They wouldn’t be possible without each other, but they each have their own story....

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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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    • By: Gary Blackwood
    • Narrated by: Stuart Blinder
    • Series: The Shakespeare Stealer, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" - or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform....

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    • By: Roberta Edwards
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to....

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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 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 276 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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    • By: James Reston Jr.
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 494 ratings
    • The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo...

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