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