19 Best Renaissance Books
Renaissance is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Renaissance audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 19 Renaissance audiobooks below.
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Super-Infinite
- By: Katherine Rundell
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.28(312 ratings)
4.28(312 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDFrom standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishmentFrom standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP–and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love.
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The King’s Painter
- By: Franny Moyle
- Narrator: Alison Larkin
- Length: 17 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.22(117 ratings)
4.22(117 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDFrom a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whose art shaped politics and immortalized the Tudors Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realized portraiture,From a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whose art shaped politics and immortalized the Tudors
Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realized portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, his advisors Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, his wives Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the age, Holbein was a multifaceted genius: a humanist, satirist, and political propagandist, and a deft man whose work was rich in layers of symbolism and allusion.
In The King’s Painter, biographer Franny Moyle traces and analyzes the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror. It is a work of serious scholarship written for a wide audience.
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The Verge
- By: Patrick Wyman
- Narrator: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 20, 2021
- Language: English
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4.17(1338 ratings)
4.17(1338 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDThe creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.In the bestselling tradition of TheThe creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.
In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.
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As told through the lives of ten real people–from famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain–The Verge illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future.
Over an intense forty-year period, the seeds for the so-called “Great Divergence” between Western Europe and the rest of the globe would be planted. From Columbus’s voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luther’s sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being.
For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the West’s rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As The Verge presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced. -
The Copernicus Archives #2: Becca and the Prisoner’s Cross
- By: Tony Abbott
- Narrator: Arielle DeLisle
- Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: June 16, 2015
- Language: English
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4.07(190 ratings)
4.07(190 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDTravel deeper into the mysterious world of the Copernicus Legacy with the Copernicus Archives: exciting, fast-paced novellas that get you close to the characters and the heart of the adventure. The Copernicus Archives #2: Becca and theTravel deeper into the mysterious world of the Copernicus Legacy with the Copernicus Archives: exciting, fast-paced novellas that get you close to the characters and the heart of the adventure.
The Copernicus Archives #2: Becca and the Prisoner’s Cross is studious language expert Becca’s thrilling first-person account of the next stop in the Kaplans’ perilous journey. As Becca and her family race through London, it’s up to Becca to make sense of the strange time blackouts she’s experiencing before the evil Teutonic Order beats them to the next relic. Or worse, hurts the people she loves.
Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson, Becca and the Prisoner’s Cross continues the thrilling Copernicus Legacy quest and brings one of the characters into the spotlight.
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The Copernicus Legacy: The Golden Vendetta
- By: Tony Abbott
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: August 25, 2015
- Language: English
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3.97(456 ratings)
3.97(456 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFilled with pulse-pounding action and cryptic codes, The Golden Vendetta is the third engrossing book in bestselling author Tony Abbott’s cloak-and-dagger series for young readers. Fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson will love thisFilled with pulse-pounding action and cryptic codes, The Golden Vendetta is the third engrossing book in bestselling author Tony Abbott’s cloak-and-dagger series for young readers. Fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson will love this adventurous series.
It’s been two months since the Kaplan family hunted down the Serpens relic, but when the evil Galina Krause suddenly and violently reappears, Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca have no choice but to face her again. Now they must race to find an artifact said to be crafted by Leonardo da Vinci himself–perhaps the strangest Guardian of all. Along the way, they uncover another layer to Galina’s sinister endgame . . . and there might not be enough time to stop it.
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The Copernicus Legacy: The Serpent’s Curse
- By: Tony Abbott
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: October 07, 2014
- Language: English
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3.95(901 ratings)
3.95(901 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDBestselling author Tony Abbott returns with the next full-length book in the Copernicus Legacy series, a globe-trotting adventure packed with more riddles, puzzles, and secret histories. The hunt for Copernicus’s first relic sent Wade,Bestselling author Tony Abbott returns with the next full-length book in the Copernicus Legacy series, a globe-trotting adventure packed with more riddles, puzzles, and secret histories. The hunt for Copernicus’s first relic sent Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca to the far reaches of the world and put them in serious danger. But they never imagined Sara Kaplan–Darrell and Wade’s mother–would be kidnapped by the conniving Galina Krause. Now they must race the evil Teutonic Order to find the Serpens relic and rescue Sara before it’s too late.
Fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson will love this epic series, which is filled with suspense and action.
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The Renaissance
- By: Walter Pater
- Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.94(1216 ratings)
3.94(1216 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDPublished to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” ItPublished to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” It was Pater’s cry of “art for art’s sake” that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the highest ideal. Marked by elegant fluency, Pater’s essays discuss Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists who, for him, embodied the spirit of the Renaissance. Pater’s work survives to this day as one of the best pieces of cultural criticism to emerge from the nineteenth century.
This collection is criticism as beautiful as the art it considers.
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The Copernicus Archives #1: Wade and the Scorpion’s Claw
- By: Tony Abbott
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: September 09, 2014
- Language: English
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3.91(257 ratings)
3.91(257 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDThe quest for the relics continues. Travel deeper into the mysterious world of the Copernicus Legacy with the Copernicus Archives: exciting, fast-paced novellas that get you close to the characters and the heart of the adventure. Wade and theThe quest for the relics continues. Travel deeper into the mysterious world of the Copernicus Legacy with the Copernicus Archives: exciting, fast-paced novellas that get you close to the characters and the heart of the adventure.
Wade and the Scorpion’s Claw picks up right where The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone left off, with the Kaplan family seeking the next Copernicus relic. Now Wade, the curious, analytical, yet starry-eyed member of the group, leads the chase for another relic through the busy streets of San Francisco while on the run from one of Galina Krause’s most treacherous henchmen.
Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson, Wade and the Scorpion’s Claw continues the thrilling Copernicus Legacy quest and brings one of the characters into the spotlight.
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Rome
- By: Matthew Kneale
- Narrator: Neil Gardner
- Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.86(854 ratings)
3.86(854 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USD“This magnificent love letter to Rome” (Stephen Greenblatt) tells the story of the Eternal City through pivotal moments that defined its history–from the early Roman Republic through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the“This magnificent love letter to Rome” (Stephen Greenblatt) tells the story of the Eternal City through pivotal moments that defined its history–from the early Roman Republic through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the German occupation in World War Two–“an erudite history that reads like a page-turner” (Maria Semple).
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Rome, the Eternal City. It is a hugely popular tourist destination with a rich history, famed for such sites as the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, St. Peter’s, and the Vatican. In no other city is history as present as it is in Rome. Today visitors can stand on bridges that Julius Caesar and Cicero crossed; walk around temples in the footsteps of emperors; visit churches from the earliest days of Christianity.
This is all the more remarkable considering what the city has endured over the centuries. It has been ravaged by fires, floods, earthquakes, and–most of all–by roving armies. These have invaded repeatedly, from ancient times to as recently as 1943. Many times Romans have shrugged off catastrophe and remade their city anew.
“Matthew Kneale [is] one step ahead of most other Roman chroniclers” (The New York Times Book Review). He paints portraits of the city before seven pivotal assaults, describing what it looked like, felt like, smelled like and how Romans, both rich and poor, lived their everyday lives. He shows how the attacks transformed Rome–sometimes for the better. With drama and humor he brings to life the city of Augustus, of Michelangelo and Bernini, of Garibaldi and Mussolini, and of popes both saintly and very worldly. Rome is “exciting…gripping…a slow roller-coaster ride through the fortunes of a place deeply entangled in its past” (The Wall Street Journal). -
The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone
- By: Tony Abbott
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: January 07, 2014
- Language: English
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3.85(2465 ratings)
3.85(2465 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA secret past can destroy the future It all begins when Wade Kaplan receives a strange, coded email from his uncle Henry, shortly before the old man’s sudden and suspicious death. He sets off for Germany to attend the funeral with his father,A secret past can destroy the future
It all begins when Wade Kaplan receives a strange, coded email from his uncle Henry, shortly before the old man’s sudden and suspicious death. He sets off for Germany to attend the funeral with his father, Roald, and his three friends Darrell, Lily, and Becca, only to discover that Uncle Henry left them yet another baffling message that they suspect is the key to figuring out how and why he died.
The message leads to a clue, which sends them to a dark and creepy family tomb. The more clues they discover, the farther they travel down a treacherous path toward an ancient, guarded secret. Soon, they are in a breathless race across the globe, running for their lives as a ruthless shadow organization chases them around every corner. Their only hope of saving themselves–and the world that they know–is to find twelve magical relics from a hidden past that will unlock the Copernicus Legacy.
The Forbidden Stone is the beginning of Tony Abbott’s epic new series, a thrilling adventure packed with puzzles, intrigue, and action.
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- By: William Manchester
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.83(10894 ratings)
3.83(10894 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe preeminent popular history of civilization’s rebirth after the Dark Ages From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomelyThe preeminent popular history of civilization’s rebirth after the Dark Ages
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance, a dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history’s greatest poets, philosophers, and painters, as well as some of its most spectacular villains.
One of the most volatile periods of western history witnessed the passing of the Dark Ages and the dawning of the Renaissance, illuminated by magnificent scientific and artistic achievements and spectacular leaps of thought and imagination. Manchester’s narrative weaves together extraordinary figures, varied elements, and accomplishments of the period.
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Da Vinci’s Cat
- By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock
- Narrator: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Greenwillow Books
- Publish date: May 25, 2021
- Language: English
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3.78(486 ratings)
3.78(486 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDTwo unlikely friends–Federico, in sixteenth-century Rome, and Bee, in present-day New Jersey–are linked through an amiable cat, Leonardo Da Vinci’s mysterious wardrobe, and an eerily perfect sketch of Bee. Newbery Honor authorTwo unlikely friends–Federico, in sixteenth-century Rome, and Bee, in present-day New Jersey–are linked through an amiable cat, Leonardo Da Vinci’s mysterious wardrobe, and an eerily perfect sketch of Bee. Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Da Vinci’s Cat is a thrilling, time-slip fantasy about rewriting history to save the present. This inventive novel will engross anyone who loved When You Reach Me and A Wrinkle in Time.
Federico doesn’t mind being a political hostage in the Pope’s palace, especially now that he has a cat as a friend. But he must admit that a kitten walking into a wardrobe and returning full-grown a moment later is quite odd. Even stranger is Herbert, apparently an art collector from the future, who emerges from the wardrobe the next night. Herbert barters with Federico to get a sketch signed by the famous painter Raphael, but his plans take a dangerous turn when he hurries back to his era, desperate to save a dying girl.
Bee never wanted to move to New Jersey. When a neighbor shows Bee a sketch that perfectly resembles her, Bee, freaked out, solidifies her resolve to keep to herself. But then she meets a friendly cat and discovers a mysterious cabinet in her neighbor’s attic–a cabinet that leads her to Renaissance Rome. Bee, who has learned about Raphael and Michelangelo in school, never expected she’d get to meet them and see them paint their masterpieces.
This compelling time-slip adventure by Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock is full of action, mystery, history, art, and friendship–and features one unforgettable cat.
Includes an author’s note about the art, artists, and history that inspired the novel .
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Francis I
- By: Leonie Frieda
- Narrator: Carole Boyd
- Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 10, 2018
- Language: English
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3.74(238 ratings)
3.74(238 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDThe bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch–Francis I–who turnedThe bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch–Francis I–who turned France into a great nation.
Catherine de Medici’s father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement’s exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Francis was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personality molded his kingdom into the first European superpower. Arguably the man who introduced the Renaissance to France, Francis was also the prototype Frenchman–a national identity was modeled on his character. So great was his stamp, that few countries even now are quite so robustly patriotic as is France. Yet as Leonie Frieda reveals, Francis did not always live up to his ideal; a man of grand passions and vision, he was also a flawed husband, father, lover, and king.
With access to private archives that have never been used in a study of Francis I, Frieda explores the life of a man who was the most human of the monarchs of the period–and yet, remains the most elusive.
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Elizabeth
- By: Lisa Hilton
- Narrator: Kelly Birch
- Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.72(209 ratings)
3.72(209 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA new biographical portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself–not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “weak and feebleA new biographical portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself–not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler
Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “weak and feeble woman’s body” to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence of why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton’s fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince and used Machiavellian statecraft to secure that position.
A decade since the last major biography, this Elizabeth breaks new ground and depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most treatments claim. For readers of David Starkey and Alison Weir, it will provide a new, complex perspective on Elizabeth’s emotional and sexual life. It’s a fascinating journey that shows how a marginalized, newly crowned queen, whose European contemporaries considered her to be the illegitimate ruler of a pariah nation, ultimately adapted to become England’s first recognizably modern head of state.
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Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
- By: Katherine Marsh
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.7(1363 ratings)
3.7(1363 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFate—is it written in the stars from the moment we are born, or is it a bendable thing that we can shape with our own hands? Jepp of Astraveld needs to know. He left his countryside home on the empty promise of a stranger, only to become aFate—is it written in the stars from the moment we are born, or is it a bendable thing that we can shape with our own hands? Jepp of Astraveld needs to know. He left his countryside home on the empty promise of a stranger, only to become a captive in the strange, luxurious prison that is Coudenberg Palace, the royal court of the Spanish infanta. Nobody warned Jepp that, as a court dwarf, daily injustices would become his seemingly unshakeable fate. If the humiliations were his alone, perhaps he could endure them, but it breaks Jepp’s heart to see his friend Lia suffer. After Jepp and Lia perform a daring escape from the palace, Jepp is imprisoned again, alone in a cage. Now, spirited across Europe by a kidnapper in a horse-drawn carriage, Jepp is unsure where his unfortunate stars may lead him. Before Jepp can become the master of his own destiny, he will need to prove himself to a brilliant and eccentric new master—a man devoted to uncovering the secrets of the stars—earn the love of a girl brave and true, and unearth the long-buried secrets of his parentage. He will find that beneath the breathtaking cruelty of the world is something else: the persistence of human kindness. Masterfully written, grippingly paced, and inspired by real historical characters, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars is an awe-inspiring story of triumph in the face of unimaginable odds.
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Theophrastus’s Characters
- By: Theophrastus
- Narrator: Billy Crudup
- Length: 1 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.67(167 ratings)
3.67(167 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDRead by Billy Crudup “These Characters are people we know–they’re our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell. Sharp-tongued Theophrastus, made sharper than ever in this fresh new edition, reminds us thatRead by Billy Crudup
“These Characters are people we know–they’re our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell. Sharp-tongued Theophrastus, made sharper than ever in this fresh new edition, reminds us that Athenian weirdness is as ageless as Athenian wisdom.” –Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, presenter of BBC’s Civilisations
When Aristotle wrote that that “comedy is about people worse than ourselves,” he may have been recalling a hard-edged gem of a treatise written by his favorite student, Theophrastus. Theophrastus’s Characters is a joyous festival of fault-finding: a collection of thirty closely observed personality portraits, defining the full spectrum of human flaws, failings, and follies. With piquant details of speech and behavior taken straight off the streets of ancient Athens, Theophrastus gives us sketches of the mean, vile, and annoying that are comically distorted yet vividly real.
Enlivened by Pamela Mensch’s fresh translation–the first widely available English version in over half a century–Theophrastus’s Characters transports us to a world populated by figures of flesh and blood, not bronze and marble. The wry, inventive drawings help envoke the cankered wit of this most modern of ancient texts. Lightly but helpfully annotated by classicist James Romm, these thirty thumbnail portraits are startlingly recognizable twenty-three centuries later. The characters of Theophrastus are archetypes of human nature that remain insightful, caustic, and relevant.
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The Secret Supper
- By: Javier Sierra
- Narrator: Simon Jones
- Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.43(3365 ratings)
3.43(3365 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDThis instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s best-known Christian piece The Last Supper.Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him afterThis instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s best-known Christian piece The Last Supper.
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Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling‚Äîand blasphemous‚Äîmessage that he is driven to decode. The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table, and the apostles, shockingly, are portraits of well-known heretics‚Äîand none of them are depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo’s greatest puzzle are right before your eyes…
Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci’s genius and his masterpiece‚Äîwhich you will never look at in the same way again. -
The Secret Supper
- By: Javier Sierra
- Narrator: Simon Jones
- Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.43(3365 ratings)
3.43(3365 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.95 USDThis instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s best-known Christian piece The Last Supper.Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him afterThis instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s best-known Christian piece The Last Supper.
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Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling‚Äîand blasphemous‚Äîmessage that he is driven to decode. The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table, and the apostles, shockingly, are portraits of well-known heretics‚Äîand none of them are depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo’s greatest puzzle are right before your eyes…
Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci’s genius and his masterpiece‚Äîwhich you will never look at in the same way again. -
The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood
- By: Robert Hutchinson
- Narrator: Ralph Lister
- Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.08(33 ratings)
3.08(33 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe gripping story of one of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in British history: a dangerous double agent and Irish rogue in King Charles II’s court One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize theThe gripping story of one of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in British history: a dangerous double agent and Irish rogue in King Charles II’s court
One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the crown jewels from the Tower of London. Astonishingly, he managed to escape with the regalia and crown before being apprehended. And yet he was not executed for treason. Instead, the king granted him a generous income and he became a familiar strutting figure in the royal court’s glittering state apartments.
This man was Colonel Thomas Blood, a notorious turncoat and fugitive from justice. Nicknamed the “Father of All Treasons,” he had been involved in an attempted coup d’etat in Ireland as well as countless plots to assassinate Charles II. In an age when gossip and intrigue ruled the coffee houses, the restored Stuart king decided Blood was more useful to him alive than dead. But while serving as his personal spy, Blood was conspiring with his enemies. At the same time he hired himself out as a freelance agent for those seeking to further their political ambition.
In The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood, bestselling historian Robert Hutchinson paints a vivid portrait of a double agent bent on ambiguous political and personal motivation, and provides an extraordinary account of the perils and conspiracies that abounded in Restoration England.
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