The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
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Eva March Tappan
This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part V include Italian painters and poets, the French Revolution, the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese explorers. - Summary by Sonia
Cast list for A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century:
Gregory: Nemo / Sampson: Tomas Peter / Abraham: Monika M.C. / Benvolio: Eva Davis / Tybalt: Son of the Exiles / First Citizen: SaraHale / Capulet: Jim Locke / Lady Capulet: Foon / Montague: Larry Wilson / Lady Montague: Devorah Allen / Prince of Verona: alanmapstone / Narrator: Sonia
Cast list for The coming of the Maid of Orléans:
Earl Dunois: Monika M.C. / Johanna: Eva Davis / King Charles: Tomas Peter / Archbishop: Nemo / Hire: alanmapstone / Narrator: Sonia
Cast list for Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy:
Richelieu: Foon / Julie: Monika M.C. / Huguet: Eva Davis / De Mauprat: Tomas Peter / Joseph: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia (18 hr 54 min)
Chapters
Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), pai…
2:23
Read by Alan Mapstone
A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakesp…
7:12
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexand…
17:36
Read by Jim Locke
Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painte…
2:33
Read by Alan Mapstone
Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by W…
8:48
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863)…
3:03
Read by Alan Mapstone
The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler
8:55
Read by Jim Locke
The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schi…
12:24
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting …
2:51
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771…
2:51
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
22:09
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 190…
2:10
Read by Tomas Peter
Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, …
2:35
Read by Hypatia
Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German a…
2:24
Read by Hypatia
The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painti…
2:57
Read by Alan Mapstone
The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting …
3:33
Read by Alan Mapstone
Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), pa…
2:48
Read by Alan Mapstone
The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 184…
1:41
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), p…
2:43
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper
10:50
Read by Hypatia
King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Wash…
20:28
Read by April6090
The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by …
5:02
Read by Tomas Peter
Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), p…
2:16
Read by Hypatia
Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901),…
2:02
Read by Hypatia
Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude
15:31
Read by Hypatia
Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sl…
5:37
Read by April6090
The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns
5:44
Read by Jim Locke
The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J.…
5:03
Read by Tomas Peter