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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: 06-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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 Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • By: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

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    • A Modern Abridgment by Moses Hadas
    • By: Edward Gibbon, Moses Hadas, Mitch Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • For listeners eager to experience Gibbon’s brilliant primary historicism, to understand the long decline of Rome—and the reasons for the Empire’s demise—there exists no better or more accessible condensation of Decline and Fall.

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    • Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan
    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Fourteenth-century Italy was chaotic: mercenaries swarmed across the land as competing city-states attempted to vie with each other for power, while pestilence and famine decimated populations. Into this cauldron was born Giangalezzo Visconti....

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    • By: Christopher Duggan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the present day....

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    • The Story of Italy through Its Wines
    • By: Marc Millon
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The world is enamored with Italy: its culture, art, food, and fashion, its beautiful landscapes, and famous cities-and, of course, its wine.

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    • The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
    • By: Andrew Stewart
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa....

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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: 21-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • The Nazi Occupation 1943-44
    • By: Victor Failmezger
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2020
    • Language: English
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    • In September 1943, following wave upon wave of Allied bombing, Italy announced an armistice with the Allies....

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    • The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
    • By: David I. Kertzer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
    • By: John Foot
    • Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war, in Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond....

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    • By: William Landon, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: William Landon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • While they were indeed ostentatious, calculating, worldly, cruel - and even, occasionally, murderous - you may be surprised to find that the Borgias were not terribly different from other powerful and ambitious families of their day....

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    • The Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 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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    • The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
    • By: William E. Wallace
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....

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    • By: John Hooper
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • John Hooper's marvelously entertaining and perceptive new book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians....

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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: 29-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
    • By: Joseph Luzzi
    • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • The Artorian Dynasty, Book 4
    • By: James Mace
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
    • Series: The Artorian Dynasty, Book 4
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • As the two former soldiers embark on a life far removed from the Danube frontier, they remain ever mindful of Trajan’s cautionary advice; that Roman politics are deadlier than the most fearsome enemy warrior.

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