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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

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Pasolini doesn't want to talk about his enemies, but does talk about the people he loves the most: simple folk, who might not have even finished grade school. For his early films, he took inspiration from Antonio Gramsci.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

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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.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

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In a Q & A, Pasolini explains to a journalist what he means when he refers to the elite. In another clip, he asks people on the beach about sex.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

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Melania Mazzucco grew up in a part of Rome on the outskirts, not the part people usually associate with the beautiful city. The white Fiat 500 her father bought for the family became an important part of her life.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

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Still on the beach, Pasolini asks more people their opinions on divorce, which became legal in 1970. The second part of this segment is part of a 1969 episode of Processo alla tappa, a TV talk show devoted to the Giro d'Italia (the Tour of Italy), a famous, 21-stage bike race.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

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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.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

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Pasolini explains the difficulty of framing a city through the lens, only for it to be ruined by modern buildings that seem to have nothing to do with the form of the city itself. He wants anonymous, simple poetry to be preserved just like the works of Dante and Petrarca.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

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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).

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

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Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

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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.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

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Pier Paolo Pasolini discusses the effects Fascism had on Italy. He talks about the city of Sabaudia, built by the fascist government on the reclaimed marshland of the ancient Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino) and how later, what took hold was the culture of consumerism.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

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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.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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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.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

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As the credits role in this final segment, we hear a song written and performed by Fabrizio De André (together with Massimo Bubola. Una storia sbagliata (a story all wrong) was commissioned for a 1980 TV show about Pasolini's death, called Dietro il processo (behind the trial). You can hear the entire song here, while here you'll find the complete lyrics in Italian.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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We visit two wineries, Rocca di Frassinello in the Maremma, near Grosseto in the southern part of Tuscany, and the famous Antinori winery in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone.

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