Italy Biography

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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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    • 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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    • By: Judith Mackrell
    • Narrated by: Julia Franklin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned....

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    • The Memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger
    • By: Sepp de Giampietro, Lawrence Paterson - foreword, Eva Burke - translator
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Brandenburgers were Hitler's Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored....

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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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    • Six Take Italy
    • By: Kate Langbroek
    • Narrated by: Kate Langbroek
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 767 ratings
    • Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny, irreverent, and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the fullest....

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    • Why Are We Here?
    • By: Rosie Meleady
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
    • Series: A Rosie Life In Italy, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Rosie is struggling with her grey, rain-soaked life in Ireland. When her landlord suddenly doubles the rent, Rosie is left with no choice but to pack up her family, two dogs, and possessions into a 20-year-old camper van and head off in search of her own happy ending in sunny Italy....

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    • The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark
    • By: Arrigo Cipriani
    • Narrated by: Bryan Bendle
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The complete history of the legendary Venice landmark where Hemingway, Welles, and others were regulars....

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    • Life of a Revolutionary
    • By: Giuseppe Fiori, Tom Nairn - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early 30s, was arrested by Mussolini’s police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death 10 years later....

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    • Potatoes, Pizza and Poteen
    • By: Rosie Meleady
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Having three generations of her family living under the same roof was once part of the Italian dream for Rosie. But when her party-loving, whiskey-drinking, poker-playing 85-year-old mother moves over from Ireland to Italy, Rosie’s longed for dolce vita in Umbria is anything but sweet....

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    • Should I Stay or Should I Go?
    • By: Rosie Meleady
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
    • Series: A Rosie Life In Italy, Book 3
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • With a new roof and working electrics in place on her villa in Italy, Rosie is ready for the next phase of turning the 22-roomed derelict Italian villa into a home....

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    • By: Frances Mayes
    • Narrated by: Frances Mayes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-1999
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • More than 20 years ago, Frances Mayes introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys....

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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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    • A Rosie Life In Italy, Book 2
    • By: Rosie Meleady
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
    • Series: A Rosie Life In Italy, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • What do you do when your adult kids fly the nest and you are having a midlife crisis during a global pandemic? You buy a 22 room derelict villa in Italy while grocery shopping of course. Well, that is what Rosie did....

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    • Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present
    • By: John Dickie
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1946, Italy became a democratic Republic, thereby entering the family of modern Western nations. But deep within Italy there lurked a forgotten curse: three major criminal brotherhoods, whose methods had been honed over a century of experience....

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    • The Definitive Biography
    • By: Stuart Barker
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Guy Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Valentino Rossi is an icon: the most successful and most loved motorcycle racer of all time, he has transcended MotoGP to become a symbol of courage, risk and daring....

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    • The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia
    • By: John Dickie
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity....

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    • By: Norman Lewis
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943. Working as a British counterintelligence officer under the Allied occupation, Lewis documents the rich pageant of life in the city and its surrounding areas....

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    • New Places to Discover in Italy
    • By: Frances Mayes
    • Narrated by: Frances Mayes, Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface of this magical country's offerings. In See You in the Piazza, Frances Mayes introduces us to the Italy only the locals know....

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