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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

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Alberto Capatti ricorda i vecchi tempi e torna con la memoria alla Parigi degli anni sessanta e ai suoi ristoranti d'atmosfera, con le tende di velluto rosso, le luci soffuse, il camino e dieci tipi di formaggi... nulla a che vedere con la nouvelle cuisine insomma!

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro Piperno comes from a mixed Jewish family and recounts how he learned, at an early age, to cherish the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome, where Christianity and Judaism blend. Thus we come to the end of this episode about the region of Lazio.

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Caption 15 [it]: Quindi, insomma, è...
Caption 15 [en]: So, in short, it's...

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues her conversation with Piperno in his favorite restaurant. They look at some photos from his past while they wait for their meal to be served.

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Caption 12 [it]: perché mi pare troppo, però insomma,
Caption 12 [en]: because it seems too much to me, but in short,

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro explains some things about the characters in his books and tells a story about when he won the Strega award. The Strega Award is the most important Italian literary award. It gets its name from one of its creators, the owner of the company producing Strega, a brand of an amaro (after-dinner, digestive bitters).

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Caption 16 [it]: è l'humus in cui si è formata la... sì, la mia narrativa, insomma.
Caption 16 [en]: it's the humus in which my narrative was formed, basically.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Leaving the outskirts of Rome, Annalena goes to a middle-class neighborhood where she meets professor and writer, Alessandro Piperno. He talks about what it was like growing up there and about his identity as a writer.

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Caption 48 [it]: e quindi, insomma, crescere qua
Caption 48 [en]: and so, in short, growing up here

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Melania talks about her relationship with her father when he was still alive. He didn't say much, but unbeknownst to her, tried to get a story of hers published. She talks about one her favorite parts of Rome: Isola Tiberina (Tiber Island), the only river island in the part of the Tiber that runs through Rome.

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Caption 29 [it]: per chiedere, insomma, se...
Caption 29 [en]: to ask, basically, if...

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Melania Gaia Mazzucco talks about one of her novels set in seventeenth-century Trastevere, quite a different place than what we see today. Although she has traveled the world, Mazzucco comes from generations of romani di Roma (Romans from Rome).

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Caption 8 [it]: Insomma, esistono o no i veri romani?
Caption 8 [en]: In short, do real Romans exist or not?

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Chiara Gamberale talks about how and where she writes, and how her life has changed now that she has a little girl.

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Caption 21 [it]: Eh, insomma, no.
Caption 21 [en]: Uh, basically, no.

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

When one retires, it can free up time as well as one's mind, providing an opportunity to experiment and find out what is important. Armando, who worked as an architect before retirement, uses photography to explore the circle of life in nature.

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Caption 31 [it]: in mezzo alla natura, insomma.
Caption 31 [en]: in the midst of nature, basically.

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 15

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Which came first? Blow-Up or Ciao Valentina? Which work stole from the other? In any case, there are some striking similarities.

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Caption 20 [it]: E gli dicevo: "Be', ma insomma, i misteri delle tue storie
Caption 20 [en]: And I told him: "Well, basically, the mysteries of your stories

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Who was the model for Valentina? Certainly, the actress Louise Brooks who portrayed Lulu in the movie Pandora's Box directed by G.W Pabst (based on two plays by Frank Wedekind), but also Crepax's wife, Luisa Mandelli.

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Caption 24 [it]: ma insomma, sicuramente, sarà,
Caption 24 [en]: but in short, for sure, it will be,

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Guido Crepax's son Antonio talks about the day Antonio Custra was killed in May of 1977, during an armed demonstration in Milan. This was during the so-called anni di piombo (years of lead), a period of social turmoil, political violence and upheaval that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism and violent clashes. Many demonstrators were arrested, but Antonio Crepax managed not to get loaded onto a paddy wagon.

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Caption 40 [it]: per cui è, è un armadio magico, insomma, diciamo.
Caption 40 [en]: so it's, it's a magic wardrobe, basically, shall we say.

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Crepax loved playing at battles and would change the outcomes, using his friends to fine-tune the moves. He had some famous personalities as willing participants in the games, too.

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Caption 27 [it]: ma insomma, si serviva dei suoi amici,
Caption 27 [en]: but basically, he used his friends

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Besides his much better known activity as a graphic artist, Crepax was a keen wargamer and wargame designer and collector of paper soldiers, drawn by himself.

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Caption 55 [it]: nel, nel mentre dorme, eccetera eccetera, insomma.
Caption 55 [en]: in, while he sleeps, et cetera, et cetera, in short.

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

One of Crepax's techniques is to use the details of everyday life to build his stories and provide context. We even see the titles of the books in Valentina's bookcase.

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Caption 8 [it]: in calzamaglia, insomma, ancora, ancora incerta,
Caption 8 [en]: in bodysuits, in short, still, still uncertain,

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