Unabridged Audiobook
What a spectacular journey through the vast sea of the Italian Renaissance! How endless was the wealth of this Renaissance, which even in its waning produced men like Tintoretto and Veronese, Aretino and Vasari, Paul III and Palestrina, Sansovino and Palladio, Duke Cosimo and Cellini, and such art as the rooms of the Ducal Palace and St. Peter’s dome! we've got to meet Humanists like Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, and witness the feverish fiery speeches and the Revolution of Cola di Rienzo, and the Babylonian captivity of the papacy also known as The Popes in Avignon, Popes of Rome without Rome. then the Rise of the Medici, the life of Cosimo de medici till The Golden Age of Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificent, After whom Florence declined, and Italy knew no peace. Afterward we will go through the destruction of secular art and culture, upon the ascending of Girolamo Savonarola to the throne of Florence, and the Birth of the Republic. the Book will dive deep in the life of the Italian City states, Milan, Piemonte, Liguria, Pavia, Genoa, Tuscany and Umbria.
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