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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
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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.”....
By: Dennis Romano
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Blood and Power
- The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
- By: John Foot
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Fantastic coverage of the fascist period of Italy
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-23
By: John Foot
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History of Italy
- A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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It is not an easy job to draw the border between the history of Italy and the history of Rome. In so many places, the two political and geographical entities collide. They wouldn’t be possible without each other, but they each have their own story....
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ANOTHER CAPTIVATING HISTORY SUCCESS FROM A CAPTIVATED LISTENER
- By Helen Unsworth on 24-09-21
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Roadmap to Hell
- Sex, Drugs, and Guns on the Mafia Coast
- By: Barbie Latza Nadeau
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules, or weapon smugglers....
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Very interesting and sad
- By Pina muratore on 25-02-20
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Friends and Romans
- On the Run in Wartime Italy
- By: John Miller
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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With a single daring leap from an Italian train carrying prisoners of war, John Miller jumped out of the war of soldiers and into the war as lived by Italian civilians - many of whom risked their lives to help him....
By: John Miller
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Storia di Caterina che per ott'anni vestì abiti da uomo
- By: Marzio Barbagli
- Narrated by: Pino Pirovano
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Il 16 giugno 1743 sulla strada per Siena un giovane servitore in fuga d'amore con la sua bella viene raggiunto dagli inseguitori; ferito da un'archibugiata, morirà pochi giorni dopo. Componendone le spoglie, all'ospedale si scopre che quel garzone, già in fama di dongiovanni impenitente...
By: Marzio Barbagli
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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.”....
By: Dennis Romano
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Blood and Power
- The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
- By: John Foot
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Fantastic coverage of the fascist period of Italy
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-23
By: John Foot
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History of Italy
- A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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It is not an easy job to draw the border between the history of Italy and the history of Rome. In so many places, the two political and geographical entities collide. They wouldn’t be possible without each other, but they each have their own story....
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ANOTHER CAPTIVATING HISTORY SUCCESS FROM A CAPTIVATED LISTENER
- By Helen Unsworth on 24-09-21
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Roadmap to Hell
- Sex, Drugs, and Guns on the Mafia Coast
- By: Barbie Latza Nadeau
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules, or weapon smugglers....
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Very interesting and sad
- By Pina muratore on 25-02-20
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Friends and Romans
- On the Run in Wartime Italy
- By: John Miller
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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With a single daring leap from an Italian train carrying prisoners of war, John Miller jumped out of the war of soldiers and into the war as lived by Italian civilians - many of whom risked their lives to help him....
By: John Miller
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Storia di Caterina che per ott'anni vestì abiti da uomo
- By: Marzio Barbagli
- Narrated by: Pino Pirovano
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Il 16 giugno 1743 sulla strada per Siena un giovane servitore in fuga d'amore con la sua bella viene raggiunto dagli inseguitori; ferito da un'archibugiata, morirà pochi giorni dopo. Componendone le spoglie, all'ospedale si scopre che quel garzone, già in fama di dongiovanni impenitente...
By: Marzio Barbagli
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Naples '44
- By: Norman Lewis
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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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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Brilliant essential listening
- By Rachel Redford on 08-10-18
By: Norman Lewis
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House of Medici
- A Captivating Guide to the History of the Medici Family and Dynasty
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Meet the Medici family, who, in some ways, can be considered to be the godfathers of the Renaissance. They patronized Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Sandro Botticelli, among many other famous artists....
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Could have been really good
- By Kitty on 01-11-23
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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....
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Well written tremendously interesting
- By C. De Vico on 21-04-24
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Breve storia d'Italia
- Dal 2000 a.C. al 2000 d.C.
- By: Alfio Caruso
- Narrated by: Roberto Accornero
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Quattromila anni di storia in quattrocento pagine, senza ridurli a un arido elenco di date e di nomi. Impossibile? Tutt'altro: in questa "Breve storia d'Italia" Alfio Caruso fonde documentazione e divulgazione, raccontando l'Italia attraverso i personaggi, le mode, i costumi, le...
By: Alfio Caruso
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Volcanic
- Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions
- By: John Brewer
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent....
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wide range of subjects - people, geology, history & influence on science and culture
- By AWK on 25-05-24
By: John Brewer
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A Concise History of Italy
- By: Christopher Duggan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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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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Italian speaker
- By Christopher Smith on 24-11-21
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L'alto Medioevo. Da Bisanzio al Feudalesimo
- Storia d'Italia 12-18
- By: Autori Vari
- Narrated by: Eugenio Farn
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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L'Alto Medioevo è, per convenzione, quella parte del Medioevo che va dalla caduta dell'Impero Romano d'Occidente, avvenuta nel 476, all'anno 1000 circa...
By: Autori Vari
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The Book of the Courtier
- By: Baldassare Castiglione
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance. Over four nights of dialogue, the book explores the key question, ‘What should a courtier be like?’ Listen for more....
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A Brief History of Italy
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England....
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Excellent view of Italian history
- By Charlie on 29-11-18
By: Jeremy Black
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History
- By: Sandra Benjamin
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
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Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale....
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the robots are coming
- By donna D on 18-05-17
By: Sandra Benjamin
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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor AD 161-180, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy....
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The narration...
- By Davie on 29-03-17
By: Marcus Aurelius
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The Borgias
- By: Christopher Hibbert
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy....
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Great read. Great narration.
- By GalePettifer on 17-05-12
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1434
- 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
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world....
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What an interesting concept?
- By Christopher on 12-05-16
By: Gavin Menzies
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- By: William E. Wallace
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....
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A captivating read by Simon Callow
- By Audio addict on 29-11-19
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Italian History
- A Captivating Guide to the History of Italy and Rome
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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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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A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF ITALIAN HISTORY
- By Helen Unsworth on 05-09-21
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One More Moon: Goodbye Mussolini! One Woman's Story of Fate and Survival
- By: Ralph Webster
- Narrated by: Nina Price
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Told in Elsa’s words and written by her grandson, One More Moon is the extraordinary story of a woman and her family’s often harrowing experiences in the years before and during World War II....
By: Ralph Webster
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Io e il Duce
- By: Indro Montanelli
- Narrated by: Valerio Amoruso
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Il 9 febbraio 1944 il "Corriere della Sera" diede la notizia dell'arresto di Indro Montanelli, accusato di avere scritto articoli...
By: Indro Montanelli
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Venice
- By: Jan Morris
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun....
By: Jan Morris
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Rome - City in Terror
- The Nazi Occupation 1943-44
- By: Victor Failmezger
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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In September 1943, following wave upon wave of Allied bombing, Italy announced an armistice with the Allies....
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The Painter's Apprentice
- Venetian Artisans
- By: Laura Morelli
- Narrated by: Anna Butterworth
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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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....
By: Laura Morelli
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A Brief History of Italy
- Tracing the Renaissance, Unification, and the Lively Evolution of Art and Culture
- By: Dominic Haynes
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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Whether you’re a student of Italian history looking for a refresher or a brand-new learner looking for an introduction, this book is a concise, easy-to-follow overview of the major players, events, and forces in Italian history, from antiquity to today....
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Discover the Essence of Italian Heritage
- By Drake on 10-11-23
By: Dominic Haynes
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The Borgias
- The Hidden History
- By: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
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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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Great story... Impossible narration
- By Marc on 01-08-13
By: G. J. Meyer
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Blood on the Altar
- By: Tobias Jones
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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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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Outstanding listen! Highly recommended
- By Mr S P James on 05-05-20
By: Tobias Jones
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The Good Mothers
- The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia
- By: Alex Perry
- Narrated by: Eva Alexander
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Founded more than 150 years ago by shepherding families in the toe of Italy, the 'Ndrangheta is today the world's most powerful mafia, with a crushing presence in Southern Italy....
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Fantastic !!!
- By Miranda on 13-02-18
By: Alex Perry