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 95 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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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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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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    • 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
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The complete history of the legendary Venice landmark where Hemingway, Welles, and others were regulars....

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    • Life of a Revolutionary
    • By: Giuseppe Fiori, Tom Nairn - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early 30s, was arrested by Mussolini’s police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death 10 years later....

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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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    • 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 Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia
    • By: John Dickie
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity....

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    • Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan
    • By: E.R. Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Fourteenth-century Italy was chaotic: mercenaries swarmed across the land as competing city-states attempted to vie with each other for power, while pestilence and famine decimated populations. Into this cauldron was born Giangalezzo Visconti....

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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 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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    • 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: 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 Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
    • By: William E. Wallace
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • A Summer in Italy
    • By: Rachel Cusk
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store....

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    • By: Tobias Jones
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Norman Lewis
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 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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