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Section | Title | Reader | Notes | Listen Url | Status |
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1 | Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting, frontispiece | Kitty | PL OK | ||
2 | Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note | Kitty | PL OK | ||
3 | The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson | Kitty | PL OK | ||
4 | How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower | Kitty | PL OK | ||
5 | The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton | Kitty | PL OK | ||
6 | Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12 | Kitty | PL OK | ||
7 | St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
8 | The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | NemoR | PL OK | ||
9 | A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
10 | Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note | moniaqua | PL OK | ||
11 | Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester | moniaqua | PL OK | ||
12 | Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
13 | Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
14 | A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare | alanmapstone moniaqua silverquill SonOfTheExiles Kitty WiltedScribe neecheelok70 SaraHale mightyfelix bluechien NemoR Foon | PL OK | ||
15 | The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Iunta4Ios | PL OK | ||
16 | The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48 | Foon | PL OK | ||
17 | Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note | Roger | PL OK | ||
18 | How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
19 | The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
20 | Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
21 | Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
22 | The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron | NemoR | PL OK | ||
23 | Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note | Roger | PL OK | ||
24 | Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
25 | Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
26 | Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
27 | Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by William Wetmore Story | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
28 | Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
29 | Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863), painting p. 102 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
30 | Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
31 | Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
32 | Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
33 | When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
34 | How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
35 | The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
36 | Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
37 | France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
38 | The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
39 | The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
40 | The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
41 | Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
42 | Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
43 | Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French painter, 1846-), painting p. 172 | Foon | PL OK | ||
44 | France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
45 | The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart | Denisette | PL OK | ||
46 | How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
47 | The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | alanmapstone moniaqua Kitty WiltedScribe bluechien NemoR | PL OK | ||
48 | Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting in the Pantheon at Paris), painting p. 192 | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
49 | The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
50 | France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
51 | Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
52 | Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte | thestorygirl | PL OK | ||
53 | The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
54 | Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771-1835), painting p. 226 | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
55 | King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
56 | France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
57 | The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
58 | Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642), painting p. 240 | Foon | PL OK | ||
59 | Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton | moniaqua Kitty WiltedScribe bluechien NemoR Foon | PL OK | ||
60 | In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
61 | The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
62 | Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 1904), painting p. 270 | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
63 | France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
64 | When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773) | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
65 | How the queen was served, by Madame Campan | Foon | PL OK | ||
66 | The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
67 | The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
68 | The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
69 | The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
70 | France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
71 | The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré | ColleenMc | PL OK | ||
72 | Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, 1815-1892), painting p. 316 | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
73 | In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
74 | Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German artist, 1826-1886), painting p. 326 | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
75 | At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens | Kitty | PL OK | ||
76 | The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
77 | France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
78 | The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painting p. 347 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
79 | The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
80 | The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
81 | The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting p. 352 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
82 | The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach | Fishfish | PL OK | ||
83 | The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous | Availle | PL OK | ||
84 | When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
85 | Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
86 | Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), painting p. 384 | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
87 | The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
88 | France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note | knotyouraveragejo | PL OK | ||
89 | The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
90 | One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
91 | The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 1848), painting p. 406 | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
92 | The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), painting p. 418 | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
93 | Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
94 | The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
95 | The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch | mightyfelix | PL OK | ||
96 | The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
97 | King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Washington Irving | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
98 | Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart | Foon | PL OK | ||
99 | The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
100 | Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
101 | The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott | Adamsantoni | PL OK | ||
102 | Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), painting p. 458 | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
103 | The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving | Availle | PL OK | ||
104 | The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
105 | A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper | realisticspeakers | PL OK | ||
106 | Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901), painting p. 482 | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
107 | The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving | Adamsantoni | PL OK | ||
108 | Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
109 | The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan | realisticspeakers | PL OK | ||
110 | The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
111 | The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates | alanmapstone | PL OK | ||
112 | The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
113 | Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
114 | Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
115 | Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
116 | Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
117 | The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
118 | The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever | catharmaiden | PL OK | ||
119 | Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
120 | How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd | Leni | PL OK | ||
121 | The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
122 | The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans | silverquill | PL OK | ||
123 | The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
124 | A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart | Hypatia | PL OK | ||
125 | Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
126 | Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske | Lmnei | PL OK | ||
127 | The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske | Leni | PL OK | ||
128 | The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston | Leni | PL OK | ||
129 | How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne | BurgundyGrace | PL OK | ||
130 | The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns | neecheelok70 | PL OK | ||
131 | Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
132 | The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart | WiltedScribe | PL OK | ||
133 | The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy | adr6090 | PL OK | ||
134 | A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd | Kitty | PL OK |