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    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III. Under his guidance the Carolingian Renaissance flourished, with his capital of Aachen becoming a center of learning and artistic genius....

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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 16 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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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Rupert Bush
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias....

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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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    • Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
    • By: John Keahey
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Now, slowly shaking itself free of the Mafia, Sicily is opening itself up to visitors in ways it never has before....

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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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    • 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 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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    • By: Walter Simmons
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Length: 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Sticking out into the Mediterranean Sea, Italy has some of the nicest weather in Europe. It is famous for its art, architecture, and cuisine. Listeners will discover the physical geography of Italy through descriptions of the landscape, waters, and coasts.

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    • By: Robert Hughes
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-12-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour....

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    • The Brutal Battle for Italy 1943
    • By: James Holland
    • Narrated by: Al Murray
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • It should have been an easy victory....

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    • Canada's Epic World War II Battle
    • By: Mark Zuehlke
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs....

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    • By: Robert Edsel
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2013
    • Language: English
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    • When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures....

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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 Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
    • By: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels....

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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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    • The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943
    • By: Mark Zuehlke
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 22-03-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On July 10, 1943, two great Allied armadas of over 2,000 ships readied to invade Sicily. This was Operation Husky....

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    • Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
    • By: Judith Herrin
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easily defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna....

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    • By: Jacob Burckhardt
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this landmark study of Italy from the 14th through the early 16th centuries, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt chronicles the rise of Florence and Venice as powerful city-states....

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    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: Paul Duncan, Michael Healy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A colourful history (50 years in the making) of the Mediterranean's largest and most turbulent island from much-loved historian John Julius Norwich....

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