Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Guido discovers why Libero is pretending to be depressed. Annuccia is upset about not having a frog, and Rebbi shows up with an invitation for Maria.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Libero goes to the radio station to try to find a job for Alberto. Guido goes to the garage to talk to Alberto.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marcello does a pretty bad audition at the radio station. But somehow, things take an unexpected direction. Meanwhile, Libero seems very confused.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rebbi and Maria don't seem to be on the same wavelength about the trip to London. Back home, there's talk about frogs and a broken dishwasher.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At Nilde's restaurant, it's time for the inauguration, but there are still some missing pieces, and she is getting nervous. Luckily she gets an unexpected and surprising helping hand. Alberto goes to see Irma at the radio just as Marcello is broadcasting his first show as the Frog.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The whole family goes to the opening of Nilde's restaurant, and there are a few surprises.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Vera talks about her parents and how they met and fell in love. Her mother was a stage actress and her father a military commander.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Vera's daughter was a teenager when Giuliano began courting her mother. Giuliano tells some stories about World War II and how crazy things were.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Giuliano talks about his beginnings as a director. Vera threatened to leave him when he thought he might accept certain jobs.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Pupia.Tv – Vibo Valentia [Calabria] – Mass evacuation in Maierato, a town of 2300 inhabitants in the province of Vibo Valentia, where on Monday 15th of February 2010 an entire mountain ridge collapsed, creating a landslide close to the town’s center, putting houses at risk.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The segment focuses on the reasons behind the founding of the French Academy by Louis XIV
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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.
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