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    The Medici

    Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 21 min

    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. 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 ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee

    An Epically Short History of Our Kings and Queens

    by Charlie Higson ...
    Narrated by Charlie Higson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 53 min

    A Waterstones Best History Book 2025A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2025‘Learned, entertaining and highly approachable’ BOB MORTIMER‘A treat’ ALICE LOXTON‘Five stars from me…’ AL MURRAYAn unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends – an irresistible, family-friendly deep dive into the murky lives of the British monarchy.... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Borgias

    Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    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.This is but one of several paradoxes ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Une brève histoire de Florence : Comment une ville a déclenché la Renaissance

    by Tanguy Humbert ...
    Narrated by Tanguy Humbert ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 10 min

    Découvrez l'aube de la Renaissance et comprenez comment une cité a bouleversé l'histoire de l'art européen. Laissez-vous transporter en Toscane, au rythme des luttes de pouvoir et du génie créatif. Ce récit historique immersif transforme votre trajet quotidien en une fascinante épopée temporelle.Ressentez l'effervescence intellectuelle d'une époque où riches marchands et brillants architectes ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Reformation: History in an Hour

    by Edward A Gosselin ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 18 min

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Reformation was a long struggle of ideas between the established Catholic Church and the questioning of faith brought about by the Renaissance in Western Europe. Started by Martin Luther in 1517, religious dissidence spread across Europe throughout the sixteenth century, causing wars, migration and disunity. By 1648 Henry VIII’s desire for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Danmarkshistorier for børn 2

    by Maria Helleberg ...
    Narrated by Dianna Vangsaa ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    Maria Helleberg tager os med på en lang rejse gennem danmarkshistorien og præsenterer os for nogle af de mest spændende og farverige personer. Vi møder blandt andre vores store eventyrdigter H.C. Andersen, søhelten Tordenskjold, Leonora Christina, der tilbragte mange år af sit liv som fange i Blåtårn, og den store opdagelsesrejsende Knud Rasmussen. Maria Helleberg (f. 1956) har siden sin debut i ... Read more

    $14.10 USD

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    It All Adds Up

    The Story of People and Mathematics

    by Mickael Launay ...
    Narrated by Oliver Hembrough ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    ‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Brunelleschi's Dome

    How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

    by Ross King ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome . . . shall do so before the end of the month of September." The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air.Of the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Shadow Drawing

    How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint

    by Francesca Fiorani ...
    Narrated by Xe Sands ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated for his consummate genius. He was the painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and the inventor who anticipated the advent of airplanes, hot air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist? Historians of Renaissance art have long supposed that Leonardo became ... Read more

    Was $24.99 USD Now $20.99 USD

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    William Shakespeare: The Life Story of the Man Behind Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet

    by Epic Life Stories ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Watson E ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Journey through time to Elizabethan England and discover the remarkable life of history's most influential playwright. This audiobook illuminates the story of William Shakespeare—from his humble beginnings in Stratford-upon-Avon to his extraordinary legacy that continues to shape our world four centuries later.Follow Shakespeare's transformation from a ... Read more

    $6.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    Narrated by Melanie Crawley ...
    Series series Great Lives

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton, read by Melanie Crawley.England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends in her being sent away by Catherine.When ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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    Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack, The

    How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

    by Alanna Skuse ...
    Narrated by Danielle Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine.When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the cliché is dreadful – unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And that’s before you get into astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre ‘treatments’, more likely to kill than cure…As ever, the true picture is somewhat different. Here, in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China—then the world's most technologically advanced civilization—provided the spark that set the European ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Vinden tuder om Børglum

    by Peder Jensen Kjærgaard ...
    Narrated by Elise Munch-Petersen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    Det vækker borgernes vrede, da den højagtede Jesper Tidselbak foran hele menigheden bliver beskyldt for at have gjort sin egen enfoldige datter gravid. Endnu større er vreden, fordi folk tror på ham, når han fortæller, at det er den forhadte Søren Ridefoged, der har forgrebet sig på hende. Den vrede, der i årevis har ulmet blandt Børglums beboere mod bispen og hans mænd, blusser nu op og fører til ... Read more

    $14.30 USD

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    25 afgørende begivenheder i verdenshistorien

    by Lars Ringholm ...
    Narrated by Jesper Bøllehuus ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    Denne bog sætter spot på 25 dramatiske begivenheder i verdenshistorien fra 1776 og frem til det 21. århundrede. Begivenheder og øjeblikke, der på afgørende vis påvirkede eller ligefrem ændrede hele verdens historie. Læs blandt andet om:1789 - Den Franske Revolution - et krav om brød ændrede hele verden for evigt1814 - Slaget ved Waterloo - en kæmpestort slag satte punktum for historiens første ... Read more

    $9.97 USD

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    What If Leonardo da Vinci Was Born in the 21st Century?

    Reimagining the Genius of the Renaissance in a World of Advanced Technology and Artistic Exploration

    by Viruti Shivan ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...
    Series series WHAT IF SERIES

    Unabridged

    57 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Reimagining the Genius of the Renaissance in a World of Advanced Technology and Artistic ExplorationWhat if one of history's most celebrated polymaths, Leonardo da Vinci, was born in the modern era? Would he be as iconic as Elon Musk or Steve Jobs, or perhaps even transcend them? Would his artistic brilliance find new expression through digital media? ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    フィレンツェ小史：一つの都市はいかにしてルネサンスを生み出したのか

    by 千葉 正明 ...
    Narrated by 千葉 正明 ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    小さな都市国家がヨーロッパの歴史を塗り替え、ルネサンスという巨大な文化的爆発を巻き起こした軌跡を追う歴史絵巻。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに耳を傾ければ、石畳の響きや行き交う商人たちの熱気といった中世イタリアの「地面の高さ」の活気が、驚くほどの没入感とともにあなたの目の前に蘇ります。軍事的にも領土的にも大国ではなかった街が、なぜ知性と芸術の頂点を極めることができたのか。疫病の脅威や血みどろの政治対立を乗り越え、人間の身体と感情を見つめ直した市民たちのあくなき情熱が、聴く者の心を強く揺さぶります。本書で見つかること:• 古代ローマの辺境拠点から、毛織物と金融業で莫大な富を築くまでのスリリングな発展の歴史。• 疫病による社会崩壊の危機を乗り越え、新しい学問である人文主義を開花させた人々の逞しさ。• メディチ家をはじめとする市民エリートたちによる ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Breve historia de Florencia: El auge y la caída de la ciudad de los Médici

    by Samuel Yagüe ...
    Narrated by Samuel Yagüe ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 9 min

    La intriga política del Renacimiento te espera, donde una ambiciosa dinastía transformó la riqueza en poder absoluto. Mientras viajas o caminas, déjate atrapar por un relato épico sobre traiciones republicanas, estrategias financieras y el esplendor cultural que cambió Europa.Satisface tu curiosidad intelectual escuchando las fascinantes tensiones entre el gobierno colectivo y el dominio familiar. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Brydningstid - En roman fra reformationstiden om Poul Helgesen

    by Niels Aage Barfoed ...
    Narrated by Søren Elung Jensen ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 30 min

    Niels Aage Barfoeds biografiske roman fortæller historien om en kontroversiel og indflydelsesrig dansk munk, der kom til at spille en stor rolle under reformationen i Danmark. Poul Helgesen blev leder af karmeliternes orden i København og var desuden forelæser i teologi ved Københavns Universitet. Bogen fortæller om en mand, der brændte for sin tro, men samtidig var ekstremt kritisk over for både ... Read more

    $14.10 USD

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    Concise History of Florence, A: The Rise and Fall of the Medici City

    by Emma Fairchild ...
    Narrated by Emma Fairchild ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 16 min

    Immerse yourself in gripping Renaissance history as a modest Tuscan commune transforms into a ruthless banking empire. Perfect for your daily commute or preparing for an Italian getaway, this atmospheric narrative plunges you into the tumultuous birth of capitalist finance. Witness how a fierce mercantile culture fueled both glorious republican institutions and violent aristocratic clashes.Step ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Henry VIII: History in an Hour

    by Simon Court ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    59 min

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.King of England, claimant King of France, Lord – and later King – of Ireland, Supreme Head of the Church of England and, perhaps most famously, six times a husband, Henry VIII is England’s most notorious monarch.Succeeding his father, Henry VII, he allied with the Holy Roman Emperor and began his many obsessive invasions of France. Meanwhile ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Death in Florence

    The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 28 min

    Death in Florence illuminates one of the defining moments in Western history—the bloody and dramatic story of the battle for the soul of Renaissance Florence.By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    La República de Venecia y la República de Génova: la historia de los rivales italianos y sus imperios mediterráneos

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Valeria Garrido ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours

    La mística ciudad flotante de Venecia ha despertado admiración durante generaciones, y sigue siendo una de las ciudades europeas más visitadas, y con buena razón. Los turistas se sienten atraídos por la impresionante combinación de arquitectura clásica, gótica y de inspiración renacentista de los pintorescos pueblos y aldeas, los encantadores mercados al aire libre, la deliciosa cocina tradicional ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Máximas y reflexiones de un renacentista sagaz

    by Francesco Guicciardini, Francesco Guicciardini, Manuel Manzano (Translator), Manuel Manzano (Translator) ...
    Narrated by Eduardo Robles ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 28 min

    Rescatamos los pensamientos que Francesco Guicciardini, el gran padre de la historiografía moderna, escribió bajo el título de Ricordi. Estas notas aforísticas, que fue reuniendo en distintos momentos de su vida y en diversos períodos de su actividad como diplomático, permanecieron inéditas hasta 1857. Vecino de Maquiavelo, catorce años mayor que él, en la República de Florencia, su pragmatismo ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus