History of Italy: A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period (Unabridged) History of Italy: A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period (Unabridged)

History of Italy: A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

If you want to discover the captivating history of Italy, then pay attention....

It is not an easy job to draw the border between the history of Italy and the history of Rome. In so many places, the two political and geographical entities collide. They wouldn’t be possible without each other, but they each have their own story. 

Rome’s history is only a small fragment of Italy’s history. Although it is just a city, Rome was the birthplace of the republic, a great empire, and notable philosophers, poets, and artists. But on a larger scale, Rome expanded its borders, spreading not only through Italy, but also through the whole known world. In that context, Rome ceased being only a city; it also became a universal imperial symbol and the pride of Italy.

In History of Italy: A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period, you will discover topics such as:


The Bronze Age in Italy and the Early Settlements
Iron Age and Pre-Roman Italy
Italy in the Roman Period
Barbarian and Byzantine Italy
The Kingdom of the Lombards and the Emergence of the Papal States
Italy’s Place in the Holy Roman Empire
Italy’s Renaissance
The Modern History of Italy
And much, much more!


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GENRE
History
NARRATOR
JZ
Jason Zenobia
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:00
hr min
RELEASED
2021
January 29
PUBLISHER
Captivating History
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
191.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Buster Barker ,

Not Easy To Follow

I was hoping to get a cohesive and “captivating” history of the unification of modern Italy. Instead I got what was almost a robotic reading that sounded like a high school world history class. To cohesively follow this timeline as it jumped wildly about early centuries, you needed to already know the geography and native regional peoples to understand it. If you don’t know who the Lombards are, they won’t explain it, but they will toss the phrase about. Finally things start to make sense around WWI and they just tell you what cowards the ill informed Italians were, how it united them in their duplicity, and leave you hanging there with a glowing one paragraph summary about how this led to them becoming the rich historied people they are today …. Huh?! You better have context, coffee, and a flip chart ready to truly enjoy this chore. Waste of time and money, sort of.

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