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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 51 [it]: e che è bello stare qui,
Caption 51 [en]: and that it is wonderful to be here,

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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 4 [it]: cioè lo st'... il vergognarsi, lo stare sull'orlo di un precipizio. -Be', sai,
Caption 4 [en]: that is, the... embarrassing oneself, being on the edge of a cliff. -Well, you know,

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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 54 [it]: Abramo non ce la fa a stare lontano
Caption 54 [en]: Abramo can't manage to stay away

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 19

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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Michele finishes his painting of Fillide and they have a moment to get to know each other better.

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Caption 4 [it]: T'ho detto di stare ferma.
Caption 4 [en]: I told you to keep still.

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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 44 [it]: con un pezzettino di piombo perché potessero stare belli dritti.
Caption 44 [en]: with a little piece of lead so that they could stand straight up.

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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Michele and Mario are having a hard time. But Michele can't bring himself to paint things he doesn't believe in, even at the risk of going hungry.

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Caption 26 [it]: Lassa stari, un ci rispunniri ca sunnu assai [siciliano: lascia stare, non gli rispondere che sono tanti].
Caption 26 [en]: Forget it. Don't answer them because there are a lot of them.

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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Caravaggio manages to sell one of his paintings and decides to leave d'Arpino's workshop. His friend finds him a room, and he starts working on a painting, now known as"Boy bitten by a lizard".

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Caption 29 [it]: Va be', sempre meglio che stare sotto al ponte. -Sì.
Caption 29 [en]: OK, always better than living under the bridge. -Yes.

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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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.

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Caption 39 [it]: Ho detto di lasciare stare.
Caption 39 [en]: I said to leave off.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 27

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

As Mimmo and Franca enjoy the beach and swimming in the clear water, he tells her about his childhood in the town they can see from where they are sitting.

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Caption 41 [it]: mi sembra di stare ancora nella pancia di mia madre.
Caption 41 [en]: I feel as if I'm still in my mother's belly.

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Luci D'Artista Salerno - Inaugurazione anno 2016 - 2017

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The 2016 opening ceremony of Salerno's Luci d'Artista, which in the captions is literally translated as Artists' Lights, but which is billed by the city as Salerno Christmas Lights. The ceremony mostly takes place in the Villa Comunale, Salerno's public garden.

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Caption 59 [it]: Però non "m'avete a disturba' [mi dovete disturbare], voglio stare solo
Caption 59 [en]: But you mustn't disturb me, I want to be alone

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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 15

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

From la nouvelle cuisine, which at its beginnings was reserved for fancy restaurants and connoisseurs and was looked upon with some scepticism, important lessons could be learned about cooking methods and the quality of the food itself.

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Caption 20 [it]: La nouvelle cuisine, proprio perché ha queste caratteristiche, deve stare molto attenta
Caption 20 [en]: The "nouvelle cuisine," precisely because it has these characteristics, must be very attentive

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Introduzione a Pasqualino Settebellezze - Un film di Lina Wertmüller

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

"Quelli che" (those who...), written and performed by the great Enzo Jannacci, lends its ironic and humoristic verses to the soundtrack of Lina Wertmüller's film,"Pasqualino Settebellezze" [Seven Beauties] starring Giancarlo Giannini, and nominated for best foreign film at the 1976 Oscars.

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Caption 19 [it]: Quelli che "cerchiamo di stare calmi, calmi!"
Caption 19 [en]: Those who "let's keep calm, calm!"

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