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

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

by Eva March Tappan

English· 18:54:31· 134 chapters
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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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting, frontispiece

    03:01
  2. Chapter 2

    Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note

    02:50
  3. Chapter 3

    The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson

    06:19
  4. Chapter 4

    How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower

    05:02
  5. Chapter 5

    The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton

    07:36
  6. Chapter 6

    Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12

    02:36
  7. Chapter 7

    St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan

    06:43
  8. Chapter 8

    The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    02:12
  9. Chapter 9

    A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi

    12:46
  10. Chapter 10

    Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note

    02:57
  11. Chapter 11

    Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester

    07:29
  12. Chapter 12

    Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan

    06:27
  13. Chapter 13

    Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36

    02:23
  14. Chapter 14

    A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare

    07:12
  15. Chapter 15

    The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    16:57
  16. Chapter 16

    The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48

    02:35
  17. Chapter 17

    Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note

    02:53
  18. Chapter 18

    How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles

    08:22
  19. Chapter 19

    The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot

    14:18
  20. Chapter 20

    Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas

    17:36
  21. Chapter 21

    Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72

    02:33
  22. Chapter 22

    The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron

    01:10
  23. Chapter 23

    Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note

    02:57
  24. Chapter 24

    Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement

    03:34
  25. Chapter 25

    Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement

    04:45
  26. Chapter 26

    Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari

    19:30
  27. Chapter 27

    Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by William Wetmore Story

    08:48
  28. Chapter 28

    Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson

    08:40
  29. Chapter 29

    Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863), painting p. 102

    03:03
  30. Chapter 30

    Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari

    07:06
  31. Chapter 31

    Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari

    07:24
  32. Chapter 32

    Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note

    02:47
  33. Chapter 33

    When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott

    26:43
  34. Chapter 34

    How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton

    09:37
  35. Chapter 35

    The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    02:32
  36. Chapter 36

    Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark

    08:08
  37. Chapter 37

    France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note

    02:39
  38. Chapter 38

    The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman

    22:17
  39. Chapter 39

    The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube

    04:43
  40. Chapter 40

    The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler

    08:55
  41. Chapter 41

    Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube

    11:05
  42. Chapter 42

    Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan

    06:56
  43. Chapter 43

    Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French painter, 1846-), painting p. 172

    02:47
  44. Chapter 44

    France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note

    02:30
  45. Chapter 45

    The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart

    10:23
  46. Chapter 46

    How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart

    07:44
  47. Chapter 47

    The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

    12:24
  48. Chapter 48

    Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting in the Pantheon at Paris), painting p. 192

    02:51
  49. Chapter 49

    The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs

    10:20
  50. Chapter 50

    France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note

    01:47
  51. Chapter 51

    Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo

    31:57
  52. Chapter 52

    Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte

    12:06
  53. Chapter 53

    The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles

    06:10
  54. Chapter 54

    Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771-1835), painting p. 226

    02:51
  55. Chapter 55

    King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini

    12:39
  56. Chapter 56

    France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note

    02:12
  57. Chapter 57

    The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay

    05:23
  58. Chapter 58

    Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642), painting p. 240

    02:16
  59. Chapter 59

    Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    22:09
  60. Chapter 60

    In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas

    23:04
  61. Chapter 61

    The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe

    11:19
  62. Chapter 62

    Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 1904), painting p. 270

    02:10
  63. Chapter 63

    France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note

    02:25
  64. Chapter 64

    When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773)

    02:41
  65. Chapter 65

    How the queen was served, by Madame Campan

    02:07
  66. Chapter 66

    The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan

    05:53
  67. Chapter 67

    The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas

    13:06
  68. Chapter 68

    The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge

    20:12
  69. Chapter 69

    The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

    04:33
  70. Chapter 70

    France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note

    02:42
  71. Chapter 71

    The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré

    13:37
  72. Chapter 72

    Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, 1815-1892), painting p. 316

    02:35
  73. Chapter 73

    In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo

    16:13
  74. Chapter 74

    Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German artist, 1826-1886), painting p. 326

    02:24
  75. Chapter 75

    At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens

    12:21
  76. Chapter 76

    The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle

    23:31
  77. Chapter 77

    France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note

    01:52
  78. Chapter 78

    The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painting p. 347

    02:57
  79. Chapter 79

    The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan

    04:39
  80. Chapter 80

    The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo

    05:15
  81. Chapter 81

    The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting p. 352

    03:33
  82. Chapter 82

    The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach

    09:00
  83. Chapter 83

    The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous

    10:36
  84. Chapter 84

    When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte

    02:41
  85. Chapter 85

    Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo

    35:42
  86. Chapter 86

    Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), painting p. 384

    02:48
  87. Chapter 87

    The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan

    03:02
  88. Chapter 88

    France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note

    01:43
  89. Chapter 89

    The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola

    22:30
  90. Chapter 90

    One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton

    22:10
  91. Chapter 91

    The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 1848), painting p. 406

    01:41
  92. Chapter 92

    The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), painting p. 418

    02:43
  93. Chapter 93

    Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note

    02:00
  94. Chapter 94

    The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

    10:50
  95. Chapter 95

    The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch

    04:46
  96. Chapter 96

    The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus

    02:46
  97. Chapter 97

    King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Washington Irving

    20:28
  98. Chapter 98

    Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

    03:22
  99. Chapter 99

    The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

    05:02
  100. Chapter 100

    Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note

    01:20
  101. Chapter 101

    The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott

    08:48
  102. Chapter 102

    Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), painting p. 458

    02:16
  103. Chapter 103

    The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving

    14:15
  104. Chapter 104

    The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving

    15:07
  105. Chapter 105

    A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper

    16:58
  106. Chapter 106

    Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901), painting p. 482

    02:02
  107. Chapter 107

    The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving

    06:29
  108. Chapter 108

    Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note

    01:28
  109. Chapter 109

    The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan

    07:15
  110. Chapter 110

    The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott

    12:30
  111. Chapter 111

    The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates

    02:43
  112. Chapter 112

    The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

    16:16
  113. Chapter 113

    Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude

    15:31
  114. Chapter 114

    Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note

    02:27
  115. Chapter 115

    Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

    05:37
  116. Chapter 116

    Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

    10:06
  117. Chapter 117

    The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper

    17:34
  118. Chapter 118

    The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever

    24:29
  119. Chapter 119

    Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note

    01:23
  120. Chapter 120

    How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd

    18:23
  121. Chapter 121

    The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo

    04:55
  122. Chapter 122

    The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans

    05:39
  123. Chapter 123

    The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart

    11:59
  124. Chapter 124

    A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart

    09:19
  125. Chapter 125

    Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note

    01:27
  126. Chapter 126

    Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske

    04:33
  127. Chapter 127

    The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske

    07:16
  128. Chapter 128

    The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston

    21:59
  129. Chapter 129

    How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne

    14:17
  130. Chapter 130

    The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns

    05:44
  131. Chapter 131

    Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note

    02:06
  132. Chapter 132

    The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart

    05:03
  133. Chapter 133

    The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy

    20:07
  134. Chapter 134

    A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd

    11:36