The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, credited to Eva March Tappan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal by Eva March Tappan. Read in English by Sonia; Devorah Allen; Nemo; Jim Locke; Monika M. C.; alanmapstone; Larry Wilson; Son of the Exiles; Tomas Peter; SaraHale; Eva Davis; Foon; Pier; Roger Melin; Lynda Marie Neilson; April6090; J. M. Smallheer; Ulrike Denis; Colleen McMahon; thestorygirl; Hypatia; Ting Cleary; Adam Santoni; realisticspeakers; Sandra Schmit; Leni; Angelique G. Campbell 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
• Author credits: Eva March Tappan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 134
• Listed recording duration: 18:54:31

Catalogue topics

• Charlemagne
• french revolution
• Vasco Da Gama
• Richelieu
• napoleon
• Joan of Arc
• spanish inquisition
• dante

Opening tracks: first 24 of 134

1. 001 - Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting, frontispiece — 3:01
2. 002 - Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note — 2:50
3. 003 - The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson — 6:19
4. 004 - How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower — 5:02
5. 005 - The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton — 7:36
6. 006 - Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12 — 2:36
7. 007 - St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan — 6:43
8. 008 - The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 2:12
9. 009 - A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi — 12:46
10. 010 - Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note — 2:57
11. 011 - Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester — 7:29
12. 012 - Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan — 6:27
13. 013 - Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36 — 2:23
14. 014 - A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare — 7:12
15. 015 - The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton — 16:57
16. 016 - The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48 — 2:35
17. 017 - Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note — 2:53
18. 018 - How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles — 8:22
19. 019 - The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot — 14:18
20. 020 - Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas — 17:36
21. 021 - Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72 — 2:33
22. 022 - The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron — 1:10
23. 023 - Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note — 2:57
24. 024 - Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement — 3:34

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