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    • The Borgias

    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 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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    • The Count of Virtue

    • Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan
    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • 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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    • Blood and Power

    • The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
    • By: John Foot
    • Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 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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    • Blood and Soil

    • 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: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 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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    • Rise and Fall of the Borgias

    • By: William Landon, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: William Landon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 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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    • Mussolini and Hitler

    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 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 Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    • By: Jacob Burckhardt
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 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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    • Pompeii

    • A Captivating Guide to the City in Ancient Rome That Was Buried Because of the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius During the Rule of the Roman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Series: The Ancient Romans
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Pompeii was destroyed by the horrific eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, which buried at least 2,000 unlucky people. Pompeii became a mysterious tomb, hiding secrets of Rome and other civilizations that influenced the life and culture of the city and its people....

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    • History of the Lombards

    • A Captivating Guide to a Group of Germanic Peoples Who Invaded Italy and Ruled Large Areas of the Italian Peninsula
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Why is a region in northern Italy called Lombardy? It was named after the Germanic barbarians known as the Lombards. As one of several founding ethnic groups, they left their mark on the peninsula....

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    • Conclave 1559

    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Julie Maisey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Conspiracy, intrigue and faction-fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the extraordinary story of the papal conclave in 1559 - the longest and bitterest of the 16th century....

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    • Michelangelo, God's Architect

    • 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: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • Italian History

    • 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: 12-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • The Italians

    • By: John Hooper
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 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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    • Brunelleschi's Dome

    • How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 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 Invention of Sicily

    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 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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    • Operation Husky

    • The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10–August 7, 1943
    • By: Mark Zuehlke
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 22-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 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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    • The Renaissance

    • A Captivating Guide to a Remarkable Period in European History, Including Stories of People Such as Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Shakespeare, and Leonardo da Vinci
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Renaissance, then pay attention....

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    • Risotto with Nettles

    • A Memoir with Food
    • By: Anna Del Conte
    • Narrated by: Rula Lenska
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop....

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    • The Roman Emperors

    • Hadrian, Constantine the Great, Commodus, Caracalla, Etc.
    • By: Coby Evans
    • Narrated by: Adam Forsyth
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings

    • This guide will guide you to the right knowledge about all the historical details you need to know about Nero, Caligula, Hadrian, Commodus, Constantine the Great, Caracalla, Marcus Aurelius, Julius Caesar, Augustus, and others....

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