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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife....

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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: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A dramatic account of some of the most notorious figures of medieval and Renaissance history who ruled from the Eternal City. It is sure to grip fans of John Julius Norwich, Tom Holland, and Peter Ackroyd....

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    • The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
    • By: Franny Moyle
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Franny Moyle traces and analyses the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror....

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    • The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
    • By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • There has been a great deal written about Tudor queens, but less so about those women who surrounded the throne, who may have held even more power and influence than those who actually wore the golden crown. This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court....

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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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    • The Story of the Tudor Queens
    • By: Roland Hui
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 21-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era. In the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens....

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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 Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
    • By: Paul Lay
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....

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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: 22-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
    • By: Noel Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 18th century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. In this path-breaking audiobook, Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction....

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    • From Pericles to Putin
    • By: Simon Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Despite the importance of Europe's politics, economy and culture, there has not been - until now - a concise book to tell this story....

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    • Machiavelli in His World
    • By: Erica Benner
    • Narrated by: Karen Saltus
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality....

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    • Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
    • By: Peter Watson
    • Narrated by: Richard Attlee
    • Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States....

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    • Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
    • By: Leah Redmond Chang
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
    • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Boldly original, dramatic story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots – three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men – Young Queens weaves the personal stories of these three queens into one....

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    • A Life
    • By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul....

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