Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting,…
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3:01 |
Read by Sonia |
Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note
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2:50 |
Read by Sonia |
The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson
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6:19 |
Read by Sonia |
How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower
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5:02 |
Read by Sonia |
The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton
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7:36 |
Read by Sonia |
Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12
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2:36 |
Read by Sonia |
St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan
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6:43 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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2:12 |
Read by Nemo |
A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi
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12:46 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note
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2:57 |
Read by Monika M. C. |
Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester
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7:29 |
Read by Monika M. C. |
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan
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6:27 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), pai…
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2:23 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakesp…
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7:12 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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16:57 |
Read by Pier |
The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48
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2:35 |
Read by Foon |
Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note
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2:53 |
Read by Roger Melin |
How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles
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8:22 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot
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14:18 |
Read by April6090 |
Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexand…
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17:36 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painte…
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2:33 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron
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1:10 |
Read by Nemo |
Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note
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2:57 |
Read by Roger Melin |
Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement
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3:34 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement
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4:45 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari
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19:30 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by W…
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8:48 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson
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8:40 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863)…
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3:03 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari
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7:06 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari
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7:24 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note
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2:47 |
Read by April6090 |
When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott
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26:43 |
Read by Jim Locke |
How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton
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9:37 |
Read by April6090 |
The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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2:32 |
Read by April6090 |
Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark
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8:08 |
Read by April6090 |
France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note
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2:39 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman
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22:17 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube
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4:43 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler
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8:55 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube
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11:05 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan
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6:56 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French pai…
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2:47 |
Read by Foon |
France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note
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2:30 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart
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10:23 |
Read by Ulrike Denis |
How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart
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7:44 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schi…
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12:24 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting …
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2:51 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs
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10:20 |
Read by Jim Locke |
France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note
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1:47 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo
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31:57 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte
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12:06 |
Read by thestorygirl |
The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles
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6:10 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771…
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2:51 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini
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12:39 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note
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2:12 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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5:23 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642)…
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2:16 |
Read by Foon |
Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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22:09 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas
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23:04 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe
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11:19 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 190…
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2:10 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note
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2:25 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773)
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2:41 |
Read by April6090 |
How the queen was served, by Madame Campan
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2:07 |
Read by Foon |
The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan
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5:53 |
Read by April6090 |
The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas
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13:06 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge
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20:12 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
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4:33 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note
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2:42 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré
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13:37 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, …
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2:35 |
Read by Hypatia |
In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo
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16:13 |
Read by April6090 |
Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German a…
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2:24 |
Read by Hypatia |
At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens
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12:21 |
Read by Sonia |
The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle
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23:31 |
Read by Jim Locke |
France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note
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1:52 |
Read by Hypatia |
The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painti…
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2:57 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan
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4:39 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo
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5:15 |
Read by April6090 |
The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting …
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3:33 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach
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9:00 |
Read by Ting Cleary |
The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous
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10:36 |
Read by Availle |
When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte
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2:41 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo
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35:42 |
Read by April6090 |
Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), pa…
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2:48 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan
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3:02 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note
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1:43 |
Read by J. M. Smallheer |
The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola
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22:30 |
Read by Jim Locke |
One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton
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22:10 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 184…
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1:41 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), p…
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2:43 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note
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2:00 |
Read by Hypatia |
The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper
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10:50 |
Read by Hypatia |
The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch
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4:46 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus
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2:46 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Wash…
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20:28 |
Read by April6090 |
Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. L…
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3:22 |
Read by Foon |
The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by …
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5:02 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note
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1:20 |
Read by Hypatia |
The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott
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8:48 |
Read by Adam Santoni |
Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), p…
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2:16 |
Read by Hypatia |
The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving
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14:15 |
Read by Availle |
The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving
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15:07 |
Read by Jim Locke |
A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper
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16:58 |
Read by realisticspeakers |
Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901),…
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2:02 |
Read by Hypatia |
The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving
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6:29 |
Read by Adam Santoni |
Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note
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1:28 |
Read by Hypatia |
The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan
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7:15 |
Read by realisticspeakers |
The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott
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12:30 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates
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2:43 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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16:16 |
Read by April6090 |
Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude
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15:31 |
Read by Hypatia |
Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note
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2:27 |
Read by April6090 |
Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sl…
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5:37 |
Read by April6090 |
Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper
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10:06 |
Read by April6090 |
The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper
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17:34 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever
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24:29 |
Read by cathar maiden |
Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note
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1:23 |
Read by April6090 |
How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd
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18:23 |
Read by Leni |
The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo
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4:55 |
Read by April6090 |
The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans
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5:39 |
Read by Larry Wilson |
The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart
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11:59 |
Read by Hypatia |
A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart
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9:19 |
Read by Hypatia |
Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note
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1:27 |
Read by April6090 |
Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske
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4:33 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske
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7:16 |
Read by Leni |
The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston
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21:59 |
Read by Leni |
How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne
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14:17 |
Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns
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5:44 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note
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2:06 |
Read by April6090 |
The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J.…
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5:03 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy
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20:07 |
Read by April6090 |
A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd
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11:36 |
Read by Sonia |