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

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

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Number of Chapters: 134

Length: 18 hours and 54 minutes

Language: English

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