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L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Apulia is famous for the characteristic trullo. But another typical building is the lamia, a rural building with a square base, sloping dry stone walls and a roof usually made with a lowered barrel vault or a dome. This characteristically simple construction consists of a single room, used as a temporary shelter for the farm's agricultural workers or storage. Today, many of these farms have been transformed into hotels.

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Caption 40 [it]: [L'Italia che piace]
Caption 40 [en]:

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L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In 2017,the region of Tuscany promoted an architectural project, collaborating to build a network of 14 wine cellars that unite a passion for design, respect for the natural environment, and the high quality of the wine they produce.

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Caption 3 [it]: [L'Italia che piace]
Caption 3 [en]: [The Italy that pleases]

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12

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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 27 [it]: Però mi piace questa idea di Gerusalemme - Roma,
Caption 27 [en]: But I like this idea of Jerusalem - Rome,

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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 1 [it]: Mi piace raccontare un mondo borghese
Caption 1 [en]: I like to recount a bourgeois world,

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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 58 [en]: who passed, in the space of five years,
Caption 58 [it]: passato nel giro di un lustro

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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 52 [it]: Mi piace leggere nelle cose,
Caption 52 [en]: I like reading into things,

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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 73 [it]: mi piace che in questa fotografia ci siano, appunto, tutti e due,
Caption 73 [en]: I like that in this photograph there are, indeed, both of them.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues talking with Paolo Giordano, who talks about how places such as Afghanistan and Apulia have influenced his writing.

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Caption 49 [it]: Dimmi qualcosa che ti piace di Roma, che in fondo hai scelto.
Caption 49 [en]: Tell me something of what you like about Rome, which, in the end, you chose.

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Armando talks about how the works of Duchamp influenced his work and that of so many contemporary artists. The choice of a unique exhibition hall played a part, as well.

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Caption 33 [en]: a space that had one function, which later, subsequently,
Caption 33 [it]: uno spazio che aveva una funzione che poi, successivamente,

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Armando begins describing the structure of his book, and talks about how he envisions a kind of journey, beginning in the far reaches of the universe, down to the tiny details of a flower.

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Caption 2 [en]: [Chapter one - Cosmic Space - Black Holes - Constellations - Nebulae - Galaxies]
Caption 2 [it]: [Capitolo 1 - Spazio Cosmico - Buchi Neri - Costellazioni - Nebulose - Galassie]

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Formaggi - D'autore - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We move on to Valtorta a spot where cheese is king. Here, they produce a special little cylindrical cheese called an agrì, exclusive to this spot. In fact, Slow Food, an organization that's become international but which began in Italy, has it as one of its special products.

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Caption 52 [it]: Come ti piace mangiarli gli agrì, Abramo?
Caption 52 [en]: How do you like to eat agrìs, Abramo?

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Formaggi - D'autore - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Here and there in the small villages of the valley, there are interesting frescos hearalding back to earlier times. Two local recipes are offered: stuffed curly cabbage leaves and Taragna polenta, a kind of cornmeal with the addition of buckwheat.

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Caption 29 [it]: Non mettiamo l'aglio perché a me non piace.
Caption 29 [en]: We don't add garlic because I don't like it.

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 17

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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Michele goes back to the tavern Ranuccio and Fillide frequent. He challenges Ranuccio.

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Caption 5 [it]: Ti piace questa?
Caption 5 [en]: Do you like this one?

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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Word seems to be getting around that Merisi is a very talented painter. In bed with malaria, Michele himself is the last one to hear about it.

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Caption 10 [it]: Ti piace?
Caption 10 [en]: Do you like it?

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Crepax's Valentina was an intriguing character because she openly reflected the sexual freedom of the late sixties and was attractive to both men and women. It was very "in" to be seen walking around with an issue of "Linus," an Italian comics magazine published in Italy beginning in 1965.

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Caption 50 [it]: in questo senso, cioè che piace agli uomini e alle donne.
Caption 50 [en]: in this sense, that is, whom both men and women like.

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