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Description

An excerpt from The Devil's Doctor by Phillip Ball

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
There were five major Italian powers in the late 15th century, Venice. The trading gateway to the east was a wealthy and relatively stable oligarchy, ruled by a Doge elected from among several of the city state's leading families. The Lagoon kingdom laid claim to territory stretching as far as Asia Minor on the eastern coast of the Adriatic. The Kingdom of Naples stretched from Sicily to Calabria across all of southern Italy. Up to the Abruzzi.