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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 99 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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    • 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 233 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 26 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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    • 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 75 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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    • 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 19 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 27 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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    • 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 66 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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 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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    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • The Painter's Apprentice

    • Venetian Artisans
    • By: Laura Morelli
    • Narrated by: Anna Butterworth
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Venice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing more than to carry on her father's legacy as a master gilder. Instead, her father has sent her away from the only home she's ever known....

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  • The History of Rome, Volume 1, Books 1 - 5 cover art

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  • The Italian Invasion of Africa cover art

    • The Italian Invasion of Africa

    • The History of Italian Colonization in Africa and the Rise and Fall of the Italian Empire
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In 1884, Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war....

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    • A Brief History of Italy

    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England....

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    • The Borgias

    • The Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 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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    • House of Medici

    • A Captivating Guide to the History of the Medici Family and Dynasty
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Meet the Medici family, who, in some ways, can be considered to be the godfathers of the Renaissance. They patronized Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Sandro Botticelli, among many other famous artists....

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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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    • Harry's Bar

    • The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark
    • By: Arrigo Cipriani
    • Narrated by: Bryan Bendle
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The complete history of the legendary Venice landmark where Hemingway, Welles, and others were regulars....

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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 out of 5 stars 43 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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