English Renaissance

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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
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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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    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-17
    • Language: English
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    • This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....

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    • An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Richard Elwood
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval worldview, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance....

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    • The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
    • By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • There has been a great deal written about Tudor queens, but less so about those women who surrounded the throne, who may have held even more power and influence than those who actually wore the golden crown. This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court....

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    • Assassin's Creed, Book 1
    • By: Oliver Bowden
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: Assassin's Creed, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-12
    • Language: English
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    • Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins....

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Rupert Bush
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias....

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    • By: Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Ruth Goodman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • Historian and popular TV presenter Ruth Goodman offers up a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal in the 16th and 17th centuries....

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    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • A dramatic account of some of the most notorious figures of medieval and Renaissance history who ruled from the Eternal City. It is sure to grip fans of John Julius Norwich, Tom Holland, and Peter Ackroyd....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The best-selling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th century. Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune....

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    • A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Volume 5
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 5
    • Length: 37 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • 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 Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jerry Brotton
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Eterean Empire, Book 1
    • By: Angela Boord
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
    • Series: Eterean Empire, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Cast out of the safe and luxurious world of silk to which she was born, played as a pawn in a game of feuding Houses, Kyrra navigates a dangerous world of mercenaries, spies, and smugglers while disguising herself as a man....

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