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Naples '44
- By: Norman Lewis
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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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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Brilliant essential listening
- By Rachel Redford on 08-10-18
By: Norman Lewis
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Fantastic coverage of the fascist period of Italy
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-23
By: John Foot
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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.”....
By: Dennis Romano
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1434
- The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....
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What an interesting concept?
- By Christopher on 12-05-16
By: Gavin Menzies
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Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone
- Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo
- By: Francesco Filippi
- Narrated by: Moni Ovadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Dopo oltre settant'anni dalla caduta del fascismo, mai come ora l'idra risolleva la testa, soprattutto su Internet, ma non solo. Frasi...
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Dante
- By: Alessandro Barbero
- Narrated by: Alessandro Benvenuti
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante...
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Dante, un uomo dei suoi tempi
- By Anonymous User on 12-03-23
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Naples '44
- By: Norman Lewis
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Brilliant essential listening
- By Rachel Redford on 08-10-18
By: Norman Lewis
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Fantastic coverage of the fascist period of Italy
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-23
By: John Foot
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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.”....
By: Dennis Romano
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1434
- The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....
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What an interesting concept?
- By Christopher on 12-05-16
By: Gavin Menzies
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Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone
- Le idiozie che continuano a circolare sul fascismo
- By: Francesco Filippi
- Narrated by: Moni Ovadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Dopo oltre settant'anni dalla caduta del fascismo, mai come ora l'idra risolleva la testa, soprattutto su Internet, ma non solo. Frasi...
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Dante
- By: Alessandro Barbero
- Narrated by: Alessandro Benvenuti
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante...
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Dante, un uomo dei suoi tempi
- By Anonymous User on 12-03-23
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Ancient Rome: A History from Beginning to End
- Ancient Civilizations, Book 1
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Ronald Bruce Meyer
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Rome is a city of myth and legend. The Eternal City, the city of the seven hills, the sacred city, the caput mundi, the center of the world, Roma, Rome, by any of her many names is a city built of history and blood, marble and water, war and conquest....
By: Hourly History
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A Concise History of Italy
- By: Christopher Duggan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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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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Italian speaker
- By Christopher Smith on 24-11-21
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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
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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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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A horrible day in Pompeii!
- By Janalyn on 27-12-21
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Out of Italy
- Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
- By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean....
By: Fernand Braudel, and others
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History of Italy
- 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
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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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ANOTHER CAPTIVATING HISTORY SUCCESS FROM A CAPTIVATED LISTENER
- By Helen Unsworth on 24-09-21
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The Borgias
- By: Christopher Hibbert
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy....
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Great read. Great narration.
- By GalePettifer on 17-05-12
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The Unfinished Palazzo
- By: Judith Mackrell
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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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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A true Venetian time
- By Mackenzie5 on 07-02-24
By: Judith Mackrell
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The Italians
- By: John Hooper
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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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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Informative and engaging insight
- By Anne L on 21-06-15
By: John Hooper
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Il Risorgimento italiano
- By: Alberto Mario Banti
- Narrated by: Giorgio Perno
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Nel 1861 si forma il Regno d'Italia: dopo molti secoli di frammentazione statale la penisola è così riunita in un'unica compagine...
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The Book of the Courtier
- By: Baldassare Castiglione
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance. Over four nights of dialogue, the book explores the key question, ‘What should a courtier be like?’ Listen for more....
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Patria 1967-1977
- By: Enrico Deaglio, Valentina Redaelli
- Narrated by: Jerry Mastrodomenico
- Length: 26 hrs and 17 mins
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Nel 1967 Gianni Morandi canta «C'era un ragazzo che come me», De André «Via del Campo» e Luigi Tenco si spara un colpo di pistola...
By: Enrico Deaglio, and others
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III
- By: Edward Gibbon
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
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Starting with the reign of Emperor Gratian (d. 383) Gibbon's survey moves to political and religious issues in the East and West before covering the increasing military power of the Barbarians....
By: Edward Gibbon
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Volcanic
- Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions
- By: John Brewer
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent....
By: John Brewer
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The Borgias
- The Hidden History
- By: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Great story... Impossible narration
- By Marc on 01-08-13
By: G. J. Meyer
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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
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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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A captivating read by Simon Callow
- By Audio addict on 29-11-19
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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
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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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Brilliant book, shocking performance.
- By CCE on 01-05-21
By: Ross King
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The History of Rome, Volume 1, Books 1 - 5
- By: Titus Livy, William Masfen Roberts - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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Hardly anyone who was educated was unaware of at least some of the more famous stories of Roman myth and history as told by Titus Livius....
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Ave Caesar
- By Ciaran on 30-08-17
By: Titus Livy, and others
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Princes of the Renaissance
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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A history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons....
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Well written tremendously interesting
- By C. De Vico on 21-04-24
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Leonardo
- Il romanzo di un genio ribelle
- By: Massimo Polidoro
- Narrated by: Massimo Polidoro
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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È l'alba del XVI secolo. L'Italia è divisa in una miriade di regni litigiosi e incapaci di opporsi alle mire delle grandi potenze. Tra...
By: Massimo Polidoro
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The Italian Renaissance
- By: J.H. Plumb
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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In all of human history there has never been an era as richly endowed with human creativity as the Italian Renaissance....
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- By Anonymous User on 04-08-10
By: J.H. Plumb
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The Wolves of Mars
- An Introductory History of Rome from the Rise of the Monarchy to the Fall of the Western Empire
- By: Aeon History
- Narrated by: Gary Bartley
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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From the foundation of the Roman Monarchy to the whispered end of the Western Roman Empire, here’s your chance to learn all the key events of the intricate dance of power, passion, and prophecy that shaped the rise, decline, and fall of Rome.
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Another smash hit by Aeon History
- By Woman of a Thousand Laughs on 08-04-24
By: Aeon History
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Conclave 1559
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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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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The Day of Battle
- The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: Rick Atkinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate....
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The Way to Rome
- By Nick Himaras on 12-02-23
By: Rick Atkinson
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Roman Mythology: The Captivating guide to Roman Gods and Goddesses
- Discover the Classic Roman Myths of Jupiter, Minerva, Venus, Neptune and the Ancient Rome History
- By: Logan Davis
- Narrated by: Henry Torres
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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The ancient Romans have one of the richest collections of myths of all the early civilizations. In this book you can discover all the most important Roman gods, important Roman myths, the history of Rome, and much more....
By: Logan Davis