Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Martino is ready to join Sally for their trip. He's literally out the door. But something comes up.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It's time to go on TV since all the headlines have announced that Martino has been found. Going on live TV is a new experience for Peppino, and host Simonetta has her hands full trying to keep control.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Peppino certainly managed to stay in the spotlight, but what happened to Martino?
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
When winter passes, the cuckoo starts singing and the air becomes infused with spring fragrances, and with love.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Cettina and Alex show us how they decorate their Christmas tree.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Cettina shows us how to make a very basic nativity scene.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Spring is here and Cettina is enjoying the outdoors. Flowers are starting to bloom, trees are getting leaves, and the sunshine is warm enough to go without a jacket.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There are plenty of Italians living in Germany. Cettina from Sicily interviews Alfonso, also from Sicily, as it turns out. Here are some easy questions and answers for when you meet someone for the first time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio is a TV mini-series based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It opens in 1577 when the painter was 5 years old. The plague had just hit and people who were still alive were burning their household possessions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Some years have passed, and Michele's widowed mother has had some difficult decisions to make regarding her children. One of these is to send 12-year-old Michele to Milan to be an apprentice at the workshop of the well-known artist, Simone Peterzano. Michele has no desire to leave home and family.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele has a rough time of it in Master Simone's workshop. It's clear, however, that he has talent. A Knight of Malta comes into the workshop to have a look.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele manages to find a home for his painting, and receives something in exchange. Still at Maestro Simone's workshop, he grows up into a man and ends up trying to defend a young apprentice from being abused as he had been.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele goes back home after his mother dies and there, he spends some time with his childhood friend, Costanza Colonna. He tells her about his plans to go to Rome, the artistic center of the universe.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Once in Rome, Caravaggio looks for work in the studios of 2 Italian painters who were well-known at the time. Nobody seems very interested in his work.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio falls ill and makes the acquaintance of Mario Minniti who becomes a friend to him. He takes him to the hospital of the church of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Rome.
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