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Italian Renaissance History
How Florence, the Medici, Michelangelo and a crowd of rival city-states changed art, ideas and power in Europe, told as a clear, vivid story for readers new to the RenaissanceBy Imad Muratspahic
Length2h 56m
About this audiobook
In 1300 there was no Italy to speak of: only a crowd of walled cities, each with its own bells, banners and bankers, each ready to fight its neighbour. Within two centuries those quarrelling cities had produced a cathedral dome nobody thought could be built, paintings that seemed to open like windows, scholars who recovered the voices of the ancient world, and a hard-eyed new way of writing about power. Italian Renaissance History tells that story as one readable narrative for people new to it, from Dante's exile in 1302 to the Sack of Rome in 1527. It is a compact history of the city-states, their money, ideas, art, women and wars: not a picture book, not a full biography of Leonardo da Vinci and not a survey of the whole of Europe. Every chapter opens on a scene, explains each unfamiliar word once and tells you plainly where historians disagree. Inside, you'll discover: Read it straight through for the whole arc, or dip into a chapter before a trip to Florence, Rome or Venice. A Quick Reference at the back gives a timeline, a who's who, a glossary and a myths-versus-facts list.
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GenreHistory
Length2 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Italian Renaissance History
2Important Notice
3Start Here: Why Italy, and Why Then?
4Chapter 1: Dante's Italy: A Peninsula of Rival Cities
5Chapter 2: Gold Florins and the House of Medici
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6Chapter 3: Lost Books and the Humanists Who Hunted Them
7Chapter 4: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Invention of Perspective
8Chapter 5: Inside the Workshop: How Renaissance Art Was Made
9Chapter 6: Popes, Dukes and Merchants: Who Paid for the Masterpieces
10Chapter 7: Ink and Type: How Printing Carried Ideas Across Italy
11Chapter 8: Rome Rebuilt: Michelangelo, Raphael and the High Renaissance
12Chapter 9: Charting the World: Maps, Anatomy and Italian Navigators
13Chapter 10: Bonfires and Princes: Machiavelli's Politics of Survival
14Chapter 11: Dowries and Duchesses: Women of the Renaissance
15Chapter 12: Fog Over Rome: The Italian Wars and the Shift North
16What Was the Renaissance? A Disputed Word and a Lasting Legacy
17Quick Reference: Timeline, Who's Who, Glossary and Myths
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