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  • The Borgias cover art

    • 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 94 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 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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    • 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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    • 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 22 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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    • 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 23 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 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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  • Emperors of Rome: Julius Caesar, Constantine, Nero, Caligula, and More cover art

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    • Naples '44

    • By: Norman Lewis
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 73 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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    • Venice

    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • By: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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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    • 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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    • The Annals

    • The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
    • By: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians....

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    • The Balkan Wars

    • A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Balkan War and Their Impact on World War I
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Did you know that the Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the “powder keg of Europe?” It was a term devised in the early 20th century to describe the unstable political situation in the region just before it exploded into a conflict known as the First World War....

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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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    • A Concise History of Italy

    • By: Christopher Duggan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 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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    • Ortona

    • Canada's Epic World War II Battle
    • By: Mark Zuehlke
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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....

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  • Galileo Galilei: A Life from Beginning to End cover art

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  • La strana morte di Papa Luciani cover art

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