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Machiavelli
- Philosopher of Power
- Narrado por: Tim Reynolds
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher - history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed" - and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times best-selling author of Brunelleschi's Dome, argues that the author of The Prince was a far more complex and sympathetic character than is often portrayed.
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- De Elizabeth Barrett en 05-09-16
De: Paul Strathern
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- De: Anthony Everitt
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,275
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,271
In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life here as a witty and cunning political operator.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An eloquent man, and a patriot
- De Darwin8u en 01-19-15
De: Anthony Everitt
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Absolute Monarchs
- A History of the Papacy
- De: John Julius Norwich
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 298
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 265
With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the world's most accomplished historians. In Absolute Monarchs, John Julius Norwich captures nearly 2,000 years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over millions have ranged from heroes to rogues, admirably wise to utterly decadent.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A relentless succession of very old men
- De Nassir en 11-01-11
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Sicily
- An Island at the Crossroads of History
- De: John Julius Norwich
- Narrado por: Michael Healy
- Duración: 14 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
"Sicily," said Goethe, "is the key to everything." It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily's strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes, and Spanish kings. The subsequent struggles to conquer and keep it have played crucial roles in the rise and fall of the world's most powerful dynasties.
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3 out of 5 stars
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DISAPPOINTING
- De SRdto en 11-22-16
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,311
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,161
The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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Marquis
- Lafayette Reconsidered
- De: Laura Auricchio
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, looks past the storybook general and selfless champion of righteous causes who, at the age of 19, volunteered to fight under George Washington, casting aside fortune and family (from one of France's oldest families; his ancestors served in the Crusades and alongside Joan of Arc) to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lafayette: A Hit Abroad! & A Miss at Home!
- De James en 03-05-15
De: Laura Auricchio
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- 1599
- De: James Shapiro
- Narrado por: James Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Note!--Abridged version
- De Scott en 01-05-16
De: James Shapiro
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Napoleon
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Paul Johnson's book is a refreshing return to a concept whose time has come once again: the Great Man theory of biography. It serves as "the greatest possible refutation of those who hold that events are governed by forces, classes, economics, and geography rather than the powerful wills of men and women". Napoleon truly was the Great Man of his age, a towering and terrible genius who managed to conquer the Continent.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not your standard biography
- De Mark Grannis en 04-24-05
De: Paul Johnson
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Augustus
- First Emperor of Rome
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,620
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,414
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,401
Caesar Augustus's story, one of the most riveting in western history, is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord, whose only claim to power was as the heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him "a boy who owes everything to a name," but in the years to come the youth outmaneuvered all the older and more experienced politicians and was the last man standing in 30 BC.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You know my name...say it.
- De Steven en 12-10-14
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Francis I
- The Maker of Modern France
- De: Leonie Frieda
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Francis was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personality molded his kingdom into the first European superpower. Arguably the man who introduced the Renaissance to France, Francis was also the prototype Frenchman - a national identity was modeled on his character.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rekindling salamandrine fires...
- De Adeliese Baumann en 09-29-18
De: Leonie Frieda
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Eminence
- Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France
- De: Jean-Vincent Blanchard
- Narrado por: Mary Kane
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the 17th century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Niccol Machiavelli. Truly larger than life, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through his own story and through his portrayal as a ruthless political mastermind in Alexandre Dumas's classic The Three Musketeers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great story boringly told
- De pete k en 09-19-16
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Heroes
- From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Johnson presents heroism through examples in history. From Alexander to Joan of Arc and George Washington to Marilyn Monroe, here are men and women from every age and corner of the world who have inspired and transformed their cultures and the world itself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but deeply flawed
- De Kennet en 12-27-07
De: Paul Johnson
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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
- De: Anthony Everitt
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 219
Acclaimed British historian Anthony Everitt delivers a compelling account of the former orphan who became Roman emperor in A.D. 117 after the death of his guardian Trajan. Hadrian strengthened Rome by ending territorial expansion and fortifying existing borders. And - except for the uprising he triggered in Judea - his strength-based diplomacy brought peace to the realm after a century of warfare.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Biography "too tall for the height of the cella"
- De Darwin8u en 08-23-12
De: Anthony Everitt
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The Sultan and the Queen
- The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
- De: Jerry Brotton
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
When Queen Elizabeth was excommunicated by the Pope in 1570, she found herself in an awkward predicament. Now England's key markets would be closed to her Protestant merchants. To complicate matters, the staunchly Catholic king of Spain was determined to destroy her, bolstered by the gold pouring in from the New World. In a bold decision with far-reaching consequences, Elizabeth set her sights on the East.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential for understanding our own era
- De marwalk en 07-21-19
De: Jerry Brotton
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Defenders of the Faith
- Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
- De: James Reston Jr.
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
In the best-selling Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston Jr. limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendom. Here he examines the ultimate battle in that centuries-long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This drama was propelled by two astonishing young sovereigns: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Turkish sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. Though they represented two colliding worlds, they were remarkably similar.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good account of interesting period of history
- De ItalCali en 03-11-22
De: James Reston Jr.
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- De: Stacy Schiff
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,604
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,116
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Approach this book with caution
- De GolfZilla en 12-02-10
De: Stacy Schiff
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The Bookseller of Florence
- The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
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The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great book, Horrible narrator
- De Sergio Remon en 07-01-21
De: Ross King
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Domino
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- Duración: 3 h y 4 m
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After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist trying to make his way in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait while she tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company 50 years before. Cautley, seeking love and truth in an age of deception and disguise, flees to Bath, where he unwittingly finds himself re-enacting the tragic fate of Tristano.
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The Shortest History of Italy
- 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times
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A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence—from a foremost author of historic Italy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why not hire a reader who has any idea how to pronounce Italian?
- De Miguel en 08-18-24
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- De: Ross King
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We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing images were created amid terrible personal turmoil and sadness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book. Awful awful narration.
- De Stephanie Croquez en 06-23-17
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
- Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man's perceptions - and the course of Western history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Very Good Book (Just Not As Good As Others)
- De George Monnat Jr en 02-18-19
De: Paul Strathern
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The Prince
- Penguin Classics
- De: George Bull - translator, Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrado por: Simon Callow
- Duración: 3 h y 35 m
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As a diplomat in turbulent 15th-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong and decisive yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why I purchased this version
- De Amazon Customer en 06-27-21
De: George Bull - translator, y otros
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The Bookseller of Florence
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The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great book, Horrible narrator
- De Sergio Remon en 07-01-21
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Domino
- De: Ross King
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- Duración: 3 h y 4 m
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After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist trying to make his way in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait while she tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company 50 years before. Cautley, seeking love and truth in an age of deception and disguise, flees to Bath, where he unwittingly finds himself re-enacting the tragic fate of Tristano.
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The Shortest History of Italy
- 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence—from a foremost author of historic Italy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why not hire a reader who has any idea how to pronounce Italian?
- De Miguel en 08-18-24
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 213
We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing images were created amid terrible personal turmoil and sadness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book. Awful awful narration.
- De Stephanie Croquez en 06-23-17
De: Ross King
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
- Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
- De: Paul Strathern
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Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man's perceptions - and the course of Western history.
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A Very Good Book (Just Not As Good As Others)
- De George Monnat Jr en 02-18-19
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The Prince
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As a diplomat in turbulent 15th-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong and decisive yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved?
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- De Amazon Customer en 06-27-21
De: George Bull - translator, y otros
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The Prince
- De: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 4 h y 47 m
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From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, or a president.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You have to know what you get with The Prince
- De Cody Brown en 02-10-15
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The Prince
- De: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 4 h y 1 m
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In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government. The book is divided into four parts - types of principalities and state, proper conduct of a prince as military leader, personal conduct of a prince, and the disparity of Italy's political situation. Many listeners will be able to see principals that Machiavelli advocates for are still used in many political systems today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great way to enjoy Machiavelli
- De Charlotte en 12-08-16
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The Judgment of Paris
- The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Tristan Layton
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris. The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amid scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been, at its inception, quite so controversial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Try this!
- De Robert en 10-28-08
De: Ross King
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- De: Jay Winik
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was crazy addicted to this book.
- De Daniel R McCloy en 12-06-17
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times
- De: Alexander Lee
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolo` Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? In Machiavelli: His Life and Times, Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father's penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher's hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Anonymous User en 03-26-21
De: Alexander Lee
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Leonardo and the Last Supper
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art - The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative yet creative
- De Isabellabasil en 05-27-15
De: Ross King
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Machiavelli
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- david malaguti
- 01-26-24
great listen
Ross king has written several books aboutSixteenth century italy. They give Contacts to the artists and architects at the time.
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- Crisitna Tunon
- 07-16-21
Awesome
Gives a great overview of Machiavelli’s works and life overall. Definitely worth the listen! The narrator was great and keeps you engaged the whole time!
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- Goso
- 08-14-24
Not a lot
A bit of a mundane telling of a fascinating story and a truly historic figure in politics & power - a let down IMO
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