Italy Biography

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • 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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    • Coming of Age in the Land of Opera
    • By: Jane Glover
    • Narrated by: Jane Glover
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart’s formative trips to Italy, from the author of Mozart’s Women and Handel in London....

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    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • On Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III. Under his guidance the Carolingian Renaissance flourished, with his capital of Aachen becoming a center of learning and artistic genius....

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    • Why Are We Here?
    • By: Rosie Meleady
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
    • Series: A Rosie Life In Italy, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Rosie is struggling with her grey, rain-soaked life in Ireland. When her landlord suddenly doubles the rent, Rosie is left with no choice but to pack up her family, two dogs, and possessions into a 20-year-old camper van and head off in search of her own happy ending in sunny Italy....

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    • The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark
    • By: Arrigo Cipriani
    • Narrated by: Bryan Bendle
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The complete history of the legendary Venice landmark where Hemingway, Welles, and others were regulars....

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    • Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present
    • By: John Dickie
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In 1946, Italy became a democratic Republic, thereby entering the family of modern Western nations. But deep within Italy there lurked a forgotten curse: three major criminal brotherhoods, whose methods had been honed over a century of experience....

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    • By: Daniel Storey
    • Narrated by: James Richardson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • Award-winning writer Daniel Storey brilliantly shines a light on an unexamined moment in Gazza’s career that encapsulates everything that we have come to associate with this most mercurial of talents....

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    • By: Maria Coletta McLean
    • Narrated by: Carol Schneider
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • After 64 years, Mezzabotte Coletta, a retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory, is retuning to his native Italia....

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    • The Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • 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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    • The Definitive Biography
    • By: Stuart Barker
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Guy Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Valentino Rossi is an icon: the most successful and most loved motorcycle racer of all time, he has transcended MotoGP to become a symbol of courage, risk and daring....

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    • The Memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger
    • By: Sepp de Giampietro, Lawrence Paterson - foreword, Eva Burke - translator
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Brandenburgers were Hitler's Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored....

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    • The Rise of the Italian Mafias
    • By: John Dickie
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Blood Brotherhoods is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international best seller Cosa Nostra....

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    • By: Frances Mayes
    • Narrated by: Frances Mayes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • More than 20 years ago, Frances Mayes introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys....

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    • By: Eric Newby
    • Narrated by: Eric Newby
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb re-creation of a bygone era....

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    • A Life of Pliny
    • By: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back....

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    • Il romanzo di un genio ribelle
    • By: Massimo Polidoro
    • Narrated by: Massimo Polidoro
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 24-04-19
    • Language: Italian
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    • È l'alba del XVI secolo. L'Italia è divisa in una miriade di regni litigiosi e incapaci di opporsi alle mire delle grandi potenze. Tra...

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    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Beginning with Rodrigo Borgia, Chamberlin charts this intelligent but ruthless man's passage to the top. He uncovers how, as Pope Alexander VI, he directed his family to carve out a Borgia kingdom in the heart of Italy....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Annette Joseph
    • Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Annette Joseph's years in Italy revealed this truth: Italy, in all its multifaceted, glorious history and culture has to be experienced in full....

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