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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
    • 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 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 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 66 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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    • 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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    • 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 23 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
    • By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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....

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    • La casata dei Medici fu una famiglia di banchieri, una dinastia dalle antiche origini che si spinse in tutti i rami della civiltà dell'epoca...
    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....

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    • Marcus Aurelius, Vespanian, Hadrian, Nero, and Others
    • By: Ron Carver
    • Narrated by: Brandon Woodall
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this historical yet somewhat dramatic account of the Roman emperors, you'll find judgments, opinions, and for the most part, hard facts about the rulers of the vast empire that controlled the Mediterranean Sea and beyond for centuries....

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    • 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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    • By: Tobias Jones
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy....

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    • By: James Mace
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The year is 77 AD. On the frontier of the Roman Empire, a Dacian man named Verus is captured and enslaved during an imperial raid north of the Danube. He is sent to a rock quarry known as The Pit, as one among thousands of fresh slaves needed to mine marble....

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    • 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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