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Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting, frontispiece |
Sonia
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Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note |
Sonia
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The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson |
Sonia
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How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower |
Sonia
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The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton |
Sonia
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Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12 |
Sonia
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St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan |
Devorah Allen
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The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Nemo
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A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi |
Jim Locke
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Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note |
Monika M. C.
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Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester |
Monika M. C.
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Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan |
Jim Locke
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Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36 |
Alan Mapstone
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A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare |
Group |
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The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
Pier
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The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48 |
Foon
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Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note |
Roger Melin
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How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot |
April6090
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Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas |
Jim Locke
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Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72 |
Alan Mapstone
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The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron |
Nemo
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Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note |
Roger Melin
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Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement |
Jim Locke
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| Play 25 |
Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement |
Tomas Peter
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| Play 26 |
Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari |
Devorah Allen
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| Play 27 |
Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by William Wetmore Story |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 28 |
Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson |
Jim Locke
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| Play 29 |
Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863), painting p. 102 |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 30 |
Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari |
Jim Locke
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Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari |
Jim Locke
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| Play 32 |
Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note |
April6090
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| Play 33 |
When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott |
Jim Locke
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| Play 34 |
How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton |
April6090
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| Play 35 |
The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
April6090
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Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark |
April6090
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| Play 37 |
France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note |
J. M. Smallheer
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| Play 38 |
The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman |
Jim Locke
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| Play 39 |
The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube |
Jim Locke
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| Play 40 |
The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler |
Jim Locke
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| Play 41 |
Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube |
Jim Locke
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Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan |
Jim Locke
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Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French painter, 1846-), painting p. 172 |
Foon
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| Play 44 |
France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note |
J. M. Smallheer
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| Play 45 |
The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart |
Ulrike Denis
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| Play 46 |
How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart |
Colleen McMahon
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| Play 47 |
The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller |
Group |
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| Play 48 |
Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting in the Pantheon at Paris), painting p. 192 |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 49 |
The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs |
Jim Locke
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| Play 50 |
France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note |
J. M. Smallheer
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Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo |
Jim Locke
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| Play 52 |
Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte |
thestorygirl
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| Play 53 |
The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles |
Jim Locke
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| Play 54 |
Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771-1835), painting p. 226 |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 55 |
King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini |
Colleen McMahon
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| Play 56 |
France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note |
J. M. Smallheer
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| Play 57 |
The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Colleen McMahon
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| Play 58 |
Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642), painting p. 240 |
Foon
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Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
Group |
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| Play 60 |
In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas |
Jim Locke
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| Play 61 |
The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe |
Jim Locke
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| Play 62 |
Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 1904), painting p. 270 |
Tomas Peter
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| Play 63 |
France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note |
J. M. Smallheer
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When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773) |
April6090
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How the queen was served, by Madame Campan |
Foon
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| Play 66 |
The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan |
April6090
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| Play 67 |
The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas |
Colleen McMahon
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| Play 68 |
The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge |
Jim Locke
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| Play 69 |
The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 70 |
France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note |
J. M. Smallheer
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| Play 71 |
The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré |
Colleen McMahon
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Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, 1815-1892), painting p. 316 |
Hypatia
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| Play 73 |
In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo |
April6090
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| Play 74 |
Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German artist, 1826-1886), painting p. 326 |
Hypatia
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| Play 75 |
At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens |
Sonia
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| Play 76 |
The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle |
Jim Locke
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| Play 77 |
France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note |
Hypatia
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| Play 78 |
The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painting p. 347 |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 79 |
The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 80 |
The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo |
April6090
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| Play 81 |
The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting p. 352 |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 82 |
The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach |
Ting Cleary
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| Play 83 |
The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous |
Availle
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| Play 84 |
When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte |
Devorah Allen
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| Play 85 |
Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo |
April6090
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| Play 86 |
Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), painting p. 384 |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 87 |
The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 88 |
France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note |
J. M. Smallheer
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| Play 89 |
The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola |
Jim Locke
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| Play 90 |
One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton |
Jim Locke
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| Play 91 |
The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 1848), painting p. 406 |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 92 |
The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), painting p. 418 |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 93 |
Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note |
Hypatia
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| Play 94 |
The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper |
Hypatia
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| Play 95 |
The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch |
Devorah Allen
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| Play 96 |
The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 97 |
King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Washington Irving |
April6090
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| Play 98 |
Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart |
Foon
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| Play 99 |
The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart |
Tomas Peter
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| Play 100 |
Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note |
Hypatia
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| Play 101 |
The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott |
Adam Santoni
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| Play 102 |
Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), painting p. 458 |
Hypatia
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| Play 103 |
The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving |
Availle
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| Play 104 |
The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving |
Jim Locke
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| Play 105 |
A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper |
realisticspeakers
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| Play 106 |
Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901), painting p. 482 |
Hypatia
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| Play 107 |
The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving |
Adam Santoni
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| Play 108 |
Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note |
Hypatia
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| Play 109 |
The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan |
realisticspeakers
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| Play 110 |
The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 111 |
The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates |
Alan Mapstone
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| Play 112 |
The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) |
April6090
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| Play 113 |
Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude |
Hypatia
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| Play 114 |
Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note |
April6090
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| Play 115 |
Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper |
April6090
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| Play 116 |
Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper |
April6090
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| Play 117 |
The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 118 |
The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever |
cathar maiden
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| Play 119 |
Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note |
April6090
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| Play 120 |
How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd |
Leni
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| Play 121 |
The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo |
April6090
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| Play 122 |
The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans |
Larry Wilson
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| Play 123 |
The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart |
Hypatia
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| Play 124 |
A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart |
Hypatia
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| Play 125 |
Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note |
April6090
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| Play 126 |
Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske |
Lynda Marie Neilson
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| Play 127 |
The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske |
Leni
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| Play 128 |
The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston |
Leni
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| Play 129 |
How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne |
Angelique G. Campbell
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| Play 130 |
The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns |
Jim Locke
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| Play 131 |
Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note |
April6090
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| Play 132 |
The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart |
Tomas Peter
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| Play 133 |
The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy |
April6090
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| Play 134 |
A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd |
Sonia
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