Cover of The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal

Eva March Tappan

English

Read 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

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  1. 1 001 - Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting, frontispiece 3:01
  2. 2 002 - Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note 2:50
  3. 3 003 - The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson 6:19
  4. 4 004 - How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower 5:02
  5. 5 005 - The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton 7:36
  6. 6 006 - Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12 2:36
  7. 7 007 - St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan 6:43
  8. 8 008 - The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2:12
  9. 9 009 - A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi 12:46
  10. 10 010 - Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note 2:57
  11. 11 011 - Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester 7:29
  12. 12 012 - Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan 6:27
  13. 13 013 - Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36 2:23
  14. 14 014 - A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare 7:12
  15. 15 015 - The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton 16:57
  16. 16 016 - The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48 2:35
  17. 17 017 - Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note 2:53
  18. 18 018 - How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles 8:22
  19. 19 019 - The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot 14:18
  20. 20 020 - Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas 17:36
  21. 21 021 - Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72 2:33
  22. 22 022 - The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron 1:10
  23. 23 023 - Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note 2:57
  24. 24 024 - Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement 3:34
  25. 25 025 - Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement 4:45
  26. 26 026 - Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari 19:30
  27. 27 027 - Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by William Wetmore Story 8:48
  28. 28 028 - Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson 8:40
  29. 29 029 - Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863), painting p. 102 3:03
  30. 30 030 - Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari 7:06
  31. 31 031 - Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari 7:24
  32. 32 032 - Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note 2:47
  33. 33 033 - When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott 26:43
  34. 34 034 - How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton 9:37
  35. 35 035 - The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2:32
  36. 36 036 - Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark 8:08
  37. 37 037 - France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note 2:39
  38. 38 038 - The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman 22:17
  39. 39 039 - The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube 4:43
  40. 40 040 - The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler 8:55
  41. 41 041 - Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube 11:05
  42. 42 042 - Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan 6:56
  43. 43 043 - Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French painter, 1846-), painting p. 172 2:47
  44. 44 044 - France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note 2:30
  45. 45 045 - The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart 10:23
  46. 46 046 - How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart 7:44
  47. 47 047 - The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 12:24
  48. 48 048 - Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting in the Pantheon at Paris), painting p. 192 2:51
  49. 49 049 - The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs 10:20
  50. 50 050 - France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note 1:47
  51. 51 051 - Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo 31:57
  52. 52 052 - Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte 12:06
  53. 53 053 - The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles 6:10
  54. 54 054 - Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771-1835), painting p. 226 2:51
  55. 55 055 - King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini 12:39
  56. 56 056 - France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note 2:12
  57. 57 057 - The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay 5:23
  58. 58 058 - Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642), painting p. 240 2:16
  59. 59 059 - Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton 22:09
  60. 60 060 - In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas 23:04
  61. 61 061 - The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe 11:19
  62. 62 062 - Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 1904), painting p. 270 2:10
  63. 63 063 - France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note 2:25
  64. 64 064 - When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773) 2:41
  65. 65 065 - How the queen was served, by Madame Campan 2:07
  66. 66 066 - The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan 5:53
  67. 67 067 - The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas 13:06
  68. 68 068 - The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge 20:12
  69. 69 069 - The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle 4:33
  70. 70 070 - France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note 2:42
  71. 71 071 - The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré 13:37
  72. 72 072 - Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, 1815-1892), painting p. 316 2:35
  73. 73 073 - In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo 16:13
  74. 74 074 - Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German artist, 1826-1886), painting p. 326 2:24
  75. 75 075 - At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens 12:21
  76. 76 076 - The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle 23:31
  77. 77 077 - France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note 1:52
  78. 78 078 - The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painting p. 347 2:57
  79. 79 079 - The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan 4:39
  80. 80 080 - The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo 5:15
  81. 81 081 - The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting p. 352 3:33
  82. 82 082 - The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach 9:00
  83. 83 083 - The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous 10:36
  84. 84 084 - When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte 2:41
  85. 85 085 - Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo 35:42
  86. 86 086 - Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), painting p. 384 2:48
  87. 87 087 - The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan 3:02
  88. 88 088 - France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note 1:43
  89. 89 089 - The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola 22:30
  90. 90 090 - One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton 22:10
  91. 91 091 - The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 1848), painting p. 406 1:41
  92. 92 092 - The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), painting p. 418 2:43
  93. 93 093 - Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note 2:00
  94. 94 094 - The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper 10:50
  95. 95 095 - The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch 4:46
  96. 96 096 - The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus 2:46
  97. 97 097 - King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Washington Irving 20:28
  98. 98 098 - Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart 3:22
  99. 99 099 - The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart 5:02
  100. 100 100 - Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note 1:20
  101. 101 101 - The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott 8:48
  102. 102 102 - Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), painting p. 458 2:16
  103. 103 103 - The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving 14:15
  104. 104 104 - The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving 15:07
  105. 105 105 - A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper 16:58
  106. 106 106 - Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901), painting p. 482 2:02
  107. 107 107 - The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving 6:29
  108. 108 108 - Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note 1:28
  109. 109 109 - The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan 7:15
  110. 110 110 - The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott 12:30
  111. 111 111 - The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates 2:43
  112. 112 112 - The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) 16:16
  113. 113 113 - Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude 15:31
  114. 114 114 - Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note 2:27
  115. 115 115 - Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper 5:37
  116. 116 116 - Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper 10:06
  117. 117 117 - The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper 17:34
  118. 118 118 - The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever 24:29
  119. 119 119 - Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note 1:23
  120. 120 120 - How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd 18:23
  121. 121 121 - The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo 4:55
  122. 122 122 - The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans 5:39
  123. 123 123 - The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart 11:59
  124. 124 124 - A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart 9:19
  125. 125 125 - Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note 1:27
  126. 126 126 - Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske 4:33
  127. 127 127 - The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske 7:16
  128. 128 128 - The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston 21:59
  129. 129 129 - How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne 14:17
  130. 130 130 - The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns 5:44
  131. 131 131 - Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note 2:06
  132. 132 132 - The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart 5:03
  133. 133 133 - The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy 20:07
  134. 134 134 - A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd 11:36

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