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Enel intervista - Tiziano Ferro - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Tiziano Ferro dà il via al suo eco-tour “L’amore è una cosa semplice 2012” sponsorizzato da Enel. In questo video esorta tutti ad adottare piccole abitudini “verdi” per la tutela dell’ambiente. Perché in fondo anche questo è semplice!

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Fumettology - TEX - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

It's fascinating to see where the idea of Tex Willer came from and how it evolved. We get to know the creators, Gianluigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini (pen name Galep).

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Caption 59 [it]: L'aspetto di Tex deriva, in fondo, dalle copertine
Caption 59 [en]: Tex's appearance derives, ultimately, from the covers

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L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Designers come from all over the world to maintain an international style. Production is carried out almost exclusively in the plant located in Umbria but most of what is produced will go to markets abroad.

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Caption 20 [it]: che è il Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano,
Caption 20 [en]: which is the Italian Fund for the Environment,

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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 34 [it]: anche l'estate, in fondo, e mi diceva che
Caption 34 [en]: also in the summer, all in all, and he would tell me that

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 13

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

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.

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Caption 37 [it]: che in fondo non ce ne siamo resi conto;
Caption 37 [en]: that deep down we didn't realize it;

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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 25 [it]: perché in fondo, eh,
Caption 25 [en]: because deep down, uh,

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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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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Pasolini talks about how he moved from literature to cinema, and how his ideas about language changed. He talked about providing Italians with an opportunity to demonstrate racism, perhaps for the first time, with his movie, Accattone.

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Caption 17 [it]: Ma neanche questa è, in fondo, una spiegazione totale.
Caption 17 [en]: But not even this, after all, is a total explanation.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Journalist Annalena Benini introduces us to different writers from different places in Italy, beginning with Rome, where she interviews Chiara Gamberale, a novelist.

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Caption 66 [it]: È andata a fondo, nei suoi libri,
Caption 66 [en]: She delved deeply, in her books,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about his first book of poetry and what he realized about his country when it was published in 1942. He explains why reviewers wouldn't touch it.

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Caption 24 [it]: In fondo, io ho preso il Friuli
Caption 24 [en]: All in all, I chose Friuli

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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 46 [it]: per me è stato fondamentale per capire che poi in fondo, ehm,
Caption 46 [en]: for me it was fundamental in understanding that ultimately, then, um,

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Formaggi - D'autore - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Lo stracchino is a soft, mild but flavorful cheese that's spreadable, and we find it in supermarkets all over Italy. But the kind Francesca's family produces in the mountains, with traditional tools, is on a whole other level. Why is this cheese called stracchino? There is a fascinating reason. Watch the video.

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Caption 19 [it]: e facciamo risalire quelli sul fondo.
Caption 19 [en]: and we have the ones on the bottom rise up.

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We've come to the end of this journey to find Valentina. Philip Rembrandt continues to wait, and Valentina never forgets him.

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Caption 41 [it]: [Fondo regionale per il cinema e l'audiovisivo]
Caption 41 [en]: [Regional fund for cinema and audiovisual works]

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Crepax's stories were based on imagination and vision. In those years, artists contaminated one another's works, and there was even a curious connection between Crepax's Ciao Valentina and Antonioni's Blow-Up.

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Caption 28 [it]: scopre che sul fondo ci sono i dettagli
Caption 28 [en]: discovers that in the background there are the details

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Filmmakers Tinto Brass and Giuseppe Tornatore comment on how some elements of expressivity are shared between comic strips and the cinema.

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Caption 5 [it]: ha fatto da sempre e che il cinema, in fondo,
Caption 5 [en]: have always done, and which cinema, essentially,

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