Renaissance History

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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: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • From Pericles to Putin
    • By: Simon Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-18
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-07
    • Language: English
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    • From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Rupert Bush
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Walter Pater
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Published in 1873, Studies in the History of the Renaissance is considered one of the most influential works in the field of aestheticism. The book is a collection of essays that explore various artists of the Renaissance period, focusing primarily on the art, culture, and philosophy of the time.

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    • 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
    • Release date: 28-01-14
    • Language: English
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    • The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....

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    • From Copernicus to Shakespeare
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Roger May
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as significant a role as the Italian Renaissance in bringing our modern world into being....

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    • Myths of a Golden Age
    • By: Ada Palmer
    • Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe.

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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-17
    • Language: English
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    • 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: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Renaissance, then pay attention....

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    • A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
    • By: Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times, what was life really like for a commoner? Find out....

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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: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
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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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    • A Life
    • By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-18
    • Language: English
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    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul....

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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: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
    • By: Jill Burke
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?

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