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The Modern Scholar: In Michelangelo’s Shadow
- The Mystery of Modern Italy
- Narrated by: Joseph Luzzi
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's summary
The director of Italian studies at Bard College, Professor Joseph Luzzi, leads a comprehensive overview of Italian culture. Beginning in the fabled realm of Renaissance art and concluding with the sweeping transformations of present-day Italy, Professor Luzzi examines the Italian mystique and answers a number of intriguing questions: Is there a distinctly “Italian” way of looking at the world? To whom do Italian Renaissance treasures truly belong? Could the United States as known today exist without the contributions of Italian culture?
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- CB
- 01-21-11
Disappointing delivery
I really wanted to like this audio. I am of Italian descent, and love things Italian. I believe the content, if one were to read it, would be interesting. Unfortunately, Prof. Luzzi didn't take the time or make the effort to read through and prepare his lectures before recording them. This is obvious throughout the whole recording, with the possible exception of the first lecture. One must assume these professors are reading their lectures, but a little enthusiasm would add a great deal. Prof. Luzzi seems to be reading this content for the first time, e.g., he gets inflection incorrect, thereby confusing his meaning; he repeats entire sentences (losing his place in the script?); he pauses where there shouldn't be a pause (turning a page to read the next word?). What a shame his didn't better prepare! I would wager that he wouldn't like it if his students were so ill prepared. He should have done it over, and done it better.
5 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Bookworm
- 01-25-11
Excellent for Italian literature buffs
Part of my disappointment was that I thought this audiobook would cover Michelangelo (especially given the subtitle In Michelangelo's Shadow.) Maybe the emphasis is on "shadow" because the artist is mentioned only in passing. I am more interested in art, art history and pure history. I'm not an Italian literature (Dante) or movie buff, so much of the book was interesting but not exciting. If you know The Divine Comedy and have seen Room with a View, this book is definitely for you. I just don't know how you write a book about Italy without at least one chapter being about art.
4 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Lisa
- 11-04-11
This is my favorite book.
Joseph Luzzi is an excellent speaker. As a student of Dante, professor Luzzi has completely changed the way that I think about Italian literature. I almost moved from Texas to the north so I could take a class with him after I listened to these lectures.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Egidio
- 10-24-10
exellent for someone interest in It. culture
As someone with a similar background, whose family emigrated in the 1950's, your book brought back many memories of our struggles in our new homeland. Thank you for your detailed discourse on Italian culture. Egidio , New Haven, Ct.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 831
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American planes during the Cuban missile crisis, when they had to turn back as they were running out of fuel. You'll discover that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's painful hemorrhoids prevented him from mounting his horse to survey the battlefield.
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3 out of 5 stars
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They just throw the facts too fast
- By Concerned_llama on 12-11-20
By: Phil Mason
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,426
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,072
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,070
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
By: Jack Weatherford
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11,546
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,258
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10,202
Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible Masterpiece
- By Phoenician on 09-10-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,565
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,267
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,259
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Butchery of the language
- By Sigurdur J. on 03-26-19
By: Jackson Crawford
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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
- By: M. Doreal
- Narrated by: John Marino
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,041
The history of the tablets translated in the following book is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years. The writer is Thoth, an Atlantean Priest-King, who founded a colony in ancient Egypt after the sinking of the mother country. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, erroneously attributed to Cheops. In it he incorporated his knowledge of the ancient wisdom and also securely secreted records and instruments of ancient Atlantis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellence...
- By Light Worker on 04-21-18
By: M. Doreal
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Helter Skelter
- The True Story of the Manson Murders
- By: Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 26 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,760
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,647
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,632
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Now available for the first time in unabridged audio, the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime is brought to life by acclaimed narrator Scott Brick.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything I remembered about the case was wrong..
- By karen on 06-22-12
By: Vincent Bugliosi, and others
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Curse of Riches
- By: Claire Prentice
- Narrated by: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
How did the Wendels, one of New York’s most famous Gilded Age families, disappear from history? The Wendels built a fortune from New York real estate, and rubbed shoulders with the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Stuyvesants. But as the 19th century came to an end, the Wendel family tore itself apart. Following six years of painstaking archival research, Claire Prentice has prised open the door of the Wendels’ Fifth Avenue mansion—dubbed “the house of mystery” by the press—to reveal a fascinating and dysfunctional family imprisoned in a gilded cage.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Kept Waiting for it to be Interesting
- By Mary on 06-23-23
By: Claire Prentice
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,007
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,711
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,708
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Did anyone proof-listen this?
- By BB on 11-11-15
By: Anne Fadiman
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CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys
- How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
- By: Patrick Nolan, Dr. Henry C. Lee - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 982
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 874
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 872
In CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys, Patrick Nolan fearlessly investigates the CIA’s involvement in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy - why the brothers needed to die and how rogue intelligence agents orchestrated history’s most infamous conspiracy. Nolan furthers the research of leading scholars who agree that there remain serious unanswered questions regarding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where are we now?
- By Payton on 04-12-17
By: Patrick Nolan, and others
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The Motherlode
- 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
- By: Clover Hope
- Narrated by: Clover Hope, Remy Ma, Nia Long, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
From the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s to today, women have been just as integral to the growth and development of the rap game as their male counterparts. Nonetheless, they’re consistently shortchanged as artists, creators, renegades, and cultural visionaries in prevailing histories of the genre. The Motherlode changes that.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- By Anonymous User on 08-23-23
By: Clover Hope