Renaissance History
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The History of the Renaissance World
- From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume - the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World - chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Impressively researched and brilliantly told, The History of the Renaissance World offers not just the names, dates, and facts but the memorable characters who illuminate the years between 1100 and 1453 - years that marked a sea change in mankind's perception of the world.
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The 2nd Half of the Medieval World
- By Troy on 05-20-15
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The History of the Renaissance World
- From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: The Story of the World
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-08-13
- Language: English
- A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world....
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The Renaissance
- A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Volume 5
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 37 hrs and 9 mins
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In this masterful work, listeners will encounter: the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance; the paintings, sculptures, and architecture of Milan, Florence, and Venice; the life and accomplishments of Leonardo DaVinci; the Catholic church and the popes of Avignon and Rome; the politicians and philosophers of Italy, including the Borgia family, Julius II, and Machiavelli; the Italian Wars, the conflicts with France, and the country's decline.
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NOT the history of the Renaissance!
- By Doris on 07-30-19
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The Renaissance
- A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Volume 5
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 5
- Length: 37 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-22-14
- Language: English
- The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance....
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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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. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance.
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Ruined by the narrator
- By Wallen on 02-28-09
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-16-07
- Language: English
- 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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The House of Wisdom
- How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
- By: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance.
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Very interesting book, well-narrated for sure
- By Roderic Rinehart on 11-07-20
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The House of Wisdom
- How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-26-19
- Language: English
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The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....
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Blood, Fire & Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
- By: Estelle Paranque
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures, and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a young Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a more experienced and clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these shrewd and strategic sovereigns. But though their individual legacies have been heavily scrutinized, nothing has been said of their complicated relationship.
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16th Century Feminists
- By Tommy on 01-23-23
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Blood, Fire & Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-06-22
- Language: English
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A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course of history....
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Machiavelli
- The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
- By: Patrick Boucheron
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.
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Great Tester
- By Iván on 04-09-24
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Machiavelli
- The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 12-01-20
- Language: English
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In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time....
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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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. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Gossip
- By Amazon Customer on 10-02-19
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- 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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The Family Medici
- The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the 15th century, the Medici gained massive political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that the Medici were enlightened rulers of the Renaissance is a fiction that has now acquired the status of historical fact. In truth, the Medici were as devious and immoral as the Borgias - tyrants loathed in the city they illegally made their own.
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Good story, bad narrator.
- By EC on 01-07-19
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The Family Medici
- The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-06-18
- Language: English
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Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that the Medici were enlightened rulers of the Renaissance is a fiction that has now acquired the status of historical fact. In truth, the Medici were devious and immoral tyrants....
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- By: Patrick Wyman
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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In the best-selling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.
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Like the Podcast but Better.
- By Michael S. Labrow on 07-21-21
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-20-21
- Language: English
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The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn....
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Princes of the Renaissance
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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A history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of 15th- and 16th-century Italy immersed themselves in the culture of antiquity, commissioning palaces, villas and churches inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome, and offering patronage to artists and writers.
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ideal
- By BaliDoug on 07-04-22
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Princes of the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-04-21
- Language: English
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A history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons....
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A Renaissance of Our Own
- A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
- By: Rachel E. Cargle
- Narrated by: Rachel E. Cargle
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before just don’t work for us anymore, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel E. Cargle, reimagining—the act of creating in our minds that which does not exist but that we believe can and should—has been a lifelong process. Reimagining served as the most powerful catalyst for Cargle’s personal transformation from a small-town Christian wife to an incisive queer feminist voice of a generation.
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Heavy focus on activism
- By MaggieThomas on 06-07-23
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A Renaissance of Our Own
- A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
- Narrated by: Rachel E. Cargle
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-16-23
- Language: English
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There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before just don’t work for us anymore, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest....
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The Middle Ages
- By: Morris Bishop
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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In this indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoritative and beautifully told, The Middle Ages is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance - a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the flowering of knighthood, the development of Europe, the increasing power of the Catholic Church, and the advent of the middle class.
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"It's All left to the imagination."
- By Dave Miller on 09-22-17
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The Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-21-17
- Language: English
- In this indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration....
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- By: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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Great story
- By Chris M on 12-09-22
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-25-22
- Language: English
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A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it....
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
- Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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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)
- By George Monnat Jr on 02-18-19
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
- Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-20-18
- Language: English
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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....
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The Renaissance
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jerry Brotton
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics, and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. In this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status.
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The Renaissance
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-25-21
- Language: English
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In this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and interaction on a global scale....
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic's eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history.
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Mesmerizing
- By Gary R. Frank on 08-24-15
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-29-14
- Language: English
- The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world....
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The Collector of Lives
- Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
- By: Ingrid Rowland, Noah Charney
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents - a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar - but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari's extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari's visionary writings that Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift.
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Outstanding!
- By BigWally on 08-31-23
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The Collector of Lives
- Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-04-18
- Language: English
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents - a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar - but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art....
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The Measure of Man
- Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance
- By: Lawrence Rothfield
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and within, they also were driven to reimagine the political and ethical basis of their world, exploring the meaning and possibilities of liberty, virtue, and beauty.
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The Measure of Man
- Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-01-21
- Language: English
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It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces....
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance, which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Interwoven into the narrative are the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola.
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Fun Story Bad History
- By Elizabeth Barrett on 05-09-16
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-15-16
- Language: English
- Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....
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Lent
- By: Jo Walton
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It's a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo "the Magnificent", the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It's a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it.
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A Monumental Waste Of Time
- By Selu on 06-03-20
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Lent
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-25-20
- Language: English
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From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes a magical re-imagining of the man who remade 15th-century Florence—in all its astonishing strangeness....
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