This series has five easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Bourbon's Army Arrives.IntroductionCharles, Duc de Bourbon, known as
Nicholas V Rebuilds Rome
This series has three easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Heart and Center of Christendom.This selection is from Makers of
Rienzi’s Decline and Fall
This is the second half of Rienzi's Revolution In Romeour selection from The Close of the Middle Ages by Richard Lodge published in 1901.For
Rienzi’s Revolution In Rome
This series has two easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Power Corrupts Rienzi.IntroductionWhen for nearly forty years Rome had
Christians Persecuted After Nero’s Rome Burned
Today's installment concludes Nero's Rome Burns,the name of our combined selection from Henryk Sienkiewic and Tacitus. The concluding installment,
Tacitus On Nero’s Rome Burns
Though great was the beauty of the city, in its renovated form, the older inhabitants remembered many decorations of the ancient which could not be
Nero Watches Rome Burn
When Terpnos gave him a golden lute, he raised his eyes to the sky, filled with the conflagration, as if he were waiting for inspiration.Continuing
Nero’s Rome Burns On
Never since the invasion by the Gauls under Brennus had Rome beheld such disaster.Continuing Nero's Rome Burns,with a selection from Quo Vadis by
Terror As Nero’s Rome Burns
The destruction seemed as irresistible, perfect, and pitiless as Predestination itself.Continuing Nero's Rome Burns,with a selection from Quo