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Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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The French government is privileged to have two of Rome's most beautiful properties: Palazzo Farnese, which they rent for a nominal fee and use as their embassy, and Villa Medici, which is the home of the French Academy, and was procured by Napoleon. The narrator speaks of how the land on which Villa Medici was built was highly appreciated by the ancient Romans.

Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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The segment focuses on the reasons behind the founding of the French Academy by Louis XIV

Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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A tour of Villa Medici's reception and private rooms. Ferdinando de' Medici hired the architect and sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati to expand the villa, as well as other renowned Florentines artists to create fresco cycles exalting his life. We catch a glimpse of his frescoed south-facing apartment, which would have been used in the colder months, while the north-side suite was for warmer periods.

Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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We get a look at the plaster casts of Roman and Greek statues in the French Academy's storage rooms, sculptures such as the Venus de Milo. Fellows have made use of these casts to draw inspiration for their own works.

Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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The segment focuses on Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius, who owned a villa on the site of Villa Medici. We catch a glimpse of tunnels and rooms beneath the villa, which were used by Ferdinando de' Medici to imprison Asian slaves when they weren't at work on a garden meant to evoke Mount Parnassus.

Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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We visit the French Academy's gallery devoted to plaster casts of antique sculptures and the large park, which was once used by Ferdinando de' Medici for hunting.

Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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The segment concentrates on two richly frescoed rooms that are set apart from the villa. Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici used these secluded rooms for trysts.

Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Éric de Chassey, Director of the French Academy, details the mission of the institution.

Trailer ufficiale - L'Oriana View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Here is the trailer for a biopic about Oriana Fallaci, one of the most famous reporters in the world, who dedicated her life to her passions.

Passeggiando per Roma - per Roma - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Strolling through Rome, we stop in front of the so-called statue of Pasquino, who, rebelling against the rigid regulations of the reigning pope, made the statue "speak" by using placards, registering his protest against the city.

Passeggiando per Roma - per Roma - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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This segment takes place in Pigneto, a Rome neighborhood, which hosts a "Mercatino del Pigneto," or flea market, where used items, collectibles, and crafts are sold. Here you'll find everything and at reasonable prices.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Both Giuseppe and Giorgio take the exam for the available position. They each have to diagnose a patient and the examination board isn't kind to either of them.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 17 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Moscati discovers what Aniello died of and feels profoundly aggrieved and powerless. He seems to have doubts about his role as a doctor.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 19 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Giorgio is getting settled in his new office and gets an unexpected and unwelcome visitor. Giuseppe has a big evening ahead of him with Elena and her father, but he gets some news he has to take care of and is delayed.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 21 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Elena is at the fancy dinner, and is worried about Giuseppe, but at the same time, she is fascinated by the after-dinner entertainment. Giorgio is taking advantage of Giuseppe's absence. Meanwhile, Giuseppe is working against the clock, realizing that his patient, from one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods of Naples, has a terrible disease.

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