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Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
66 hours 21 mins; October 17, 2022
Camilla Hawthorne, "Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2022)
64 hours 5 mins; October 12, 2022
On Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince"
28 mins; October 12, 2022
Timothy McCall, "Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
55 mins; October 05, 2022
Is Italy Going Fascist Again? What to Expect from Meloni with Andrea Mammone
41 mins; September 27, 2022
On Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"
28 mins; September 16, 2022
Levi Roach, "Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
53 mins; September 14, 2022
Ian Campbell, "The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame" (Hurst, 2017)
111 hours 7 mins; September 07, 2022
Michael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
76 hours 8 mins; September 05, 2022
William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
57 mins; September 02, 2022
On Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism"
27 mins; September 01, 2022
Meighen McCrae, "Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
70 hours 17 mins; September 01, 2022
The Future of the European Union: A Discussion with Luuk van Middelaar
47 mins; August 30, 2022
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
46 mins; August 29, 2022
Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
49 mins; August 29, 2022
Brian Brege, "Tuscany in the Age of Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
93 hours 3 mins; August 22, 2022
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; August 17, 2022
Vanda Wilcox, "The Italian Empire and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
81 hours 3 mins; August 01, 2022
David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 32 mins; July 28, 2022
Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
40 mins; July 08, 2022
On the Roman Catacombs: A Discussion with William Gruen
52 mins; June 28, 2022
On the Roman Catacombs: A Discussion with William Gruen
52 mins; June 28, 2022
Matt King, "Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily" (Cornell UP, 2022)
64 hours 44 mins; June 10, 2022
Kelly Olson, "Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity" (Routledge, 2020)
45 mins; June 08, 2022
Guy MacLean Rogers, "For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE" (Yale UP, 2022)
64 hours 16 mins; June 08, 2022
Chiara Camarda et al., "The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space That Travels" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
28 mins; May 27, 2022
Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)
39 mins; May 27, 2022
Lisa Reilly, "The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
51 mins; April 20, 2022
Diana Garvin, "Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
60 hours 32 mins; April 15, 2022
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
49 mins; April 06, 2022
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
87 hours 12 mins; April 04, 2022
Federica Francesconi, "Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
49 mins; February 14, 2022
Kimberly Cassibry, "Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; February 04, 2022
Emma Southon, "A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome" (Abrams Press, 2021)
66 hours 49 mins; February 02, 2022
Judith Herrin, "Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
56 mins; January 14, 2022
David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
26 mins; January 07, 2022
Martin Conway, "Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945-1968" (Princeton UP, 2021)
41 mins; January 03, 2022
E. Natalie Rothman, "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell UP, 2021)
69 hours 50 mins; December 24, 2021
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, “Herculaneum Uncovered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
94 hours 14 mins; November 30, 2021
Ambrogio A. Caiani, "To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII" (Yale UP, 2021)
41 mins; November 17, 2021
Eva Del Soldato, "Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
64 hours 9 mins; November 16, 2021
Michele Kennerly, "Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics" (U South Carolina Press, 2018)
56 mins; November 05, 2021
Tobias Hof, "Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
62 hours 6 mins; November 02, 2021
Paola Ugolini, "Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
54 mins; October 11, 2021
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 35 mins; October 07, 2021
Stefania Tutino, "A Fake Saint and the Real Church: The Story of a Forgery in Seventeenth-Century Naples" (Oxford UP, 2021)
55 mins; September 15, 2021
Salvatore Pappalardo, "Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
49 mins; August 24, 2021
Daniel A. Klein (trans.), "Shadal on Leviticus" (Kodesh Press, 2020)
32 mins; August 10, 2021
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 2021
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
31 mins; July 14, 2021
Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
67 hours 3 mins; July 07, 2021
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
44 mins; July 05, 2021
Megan Carney, "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" ( U of California Press, 2021)
58 mins; June 15, 2021
Alice Elliot, "The Outside: Migration As Life in Morocco" (Indiana UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 11, 2021
Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
64 hours 2 mins; June 08, 2021
Sergio Rigoletto, "Le norme traviate: Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualitĂ  nel cinema e nella televisione italiana" (Meltemi Publishers, 2020)
61 hours 59 mins; May 31, 2021
Anthony Valerio, "Conversation with Johnny: A Novel of Power and Sex" (2017)
29 mins; May 25, 2021
R. J. B. Bosworth, "Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism: From Dictatorship to Populism" (Yale UP, 2021)
42 mins; May 25, 2021
Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
54 mins; May 12, 2021
Richard Hammond, "Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
47 mins; April 27, 2021
Ritchie Robertson, "The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (Harper, 2021)
39 mins; April 27, 2021
Stefano Marcuzzi, "Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War: Defending and Forging Empires" (Cambridge UP, 2020).
60 hours 51 mins; April 13, 2021
John Sellars, "Marcus Aurelius" (Routledge, 2020)
63 hours 19 mins; April 09, 2021
Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
75 hours 17 mins; April 06, 2021
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
66 hours 3 mins; March 31, 2021
K. Forkert et al, "How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants" (Manchester UP, 2020)
54 mins; March 17, 2021
Laura Eastlake, "Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity" ďťż(Oxford UP, 2019)
55 mins; March 09, 2021
Fiona Greenland, "Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy" (U of Chicago Press, 2021)
58 mins; February 25, 2021
Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
59 mins; February 19, 2021
Hannah Marcus, "Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
51 mins; February 16, 2021
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 18 mins; December 31, 2020
Ioanna Lordanou, "Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance" (Oxford UP, 2019)
49 mins; December 16, 2020
Kiran Klaus Patel, "Project Europe: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
41 mins; December 15, 2020
Konstantina Zanou, "Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation" (Oxford UP, 2019)
57 mins; December 14, 2020
Anthony A. Barrett, "Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty" (Princeton UP, 2020)
54 mins; December 07, 2020
Dominique Kirchner Reill, "The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
59 mins; December 02, 2020
S. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of 18th-Century Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2020)
78 hours 21 mins; November 24, 2020
Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
55 mins; November 18, 2020
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
31 mins; November 17, 2020
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
66 hours 21 mins; November 16, 2020
Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
103 hours 16 mins; November 02, 2020
Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform" (Oxford UP, 2020)
32 mins; October 19, 2020
Rachel Mesch, "Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
61 hours 54 mins; September 04, 2020
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
64 hours 20 mins; August 31, 2020
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Mediterranean" (Little Brown, 2020)
32 mins; August 31, 2020
Dana Renga, "Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television: Gomorrah and Beyond" (Palgrave MacMillan, 20
56 mins; August 26, 2020
Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
74 hours 55 mins; August 21, 2020
Colin Rose, "A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
66 hours 18 mins; August 18, 2020
Russell J. A. Kilbourn, "The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style" (Wallflower Press, 2020)
73 hours 20 mins; August 04, 2020
James Renshaw, "In Search of the Romans" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
73 hours 29 mins; July 27, 2020
Giulia Bonazza, "Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States 1750–1850" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
59 mins; July 21, 2020
Frank Dimatteo, "Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia" (Citadel, 2020)
42 mins; July 10, 2020
Christian Kleinbub, "Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies" (Penn State UP, 2020)
58 mins; July 07, 2020
Elizabeth Horodowich, "The Venetian Discovery of America" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
52 mins; June 16, 2020
Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration" (U Chicago, 2019)
50 mins; June 09, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Marco RafalĂ , "How Fires End" (Little A, 2019)
25 mins; May 12, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Eric Dursteler, "In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (CRRS, 2018)
70 hours 50 mins; April 23, 2020
Maddalena Marinari, "Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965" (UNC Press, 2020)
37 mins; April 14, 2020
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