Are we ready for electric automobiles? Gianfranco Pavan talks about Svolta Elettrica or Electric Turning Point at the Bologna Motor Show of 2011.

Gigi Proietti, a Rome actor who is widely known in Italy for his TV work, is in this advertisement for Kimbo Coffee.

Antonio Cannavacciuolo shows us how to make a very elegant pasta dish with zucchini and fish. The cooking video is an ad for Voiello pasta, in this case mezze maniche which means "short sleeves."

Today Antonino cooks special, grooved spaghetti, with garlic, oil and hot peppers. It's a classic pasta recipe, but our chef adds some extra ingredients to give it a different twist.

Antonino shares a new and easy recipe with grape or cherry tomatoes, buffalo stracciatella, and shrimp. But what makes the dish special is the special pasta: Penne with ridges both inside and out.

Antonino has a visitor from Sorrento on the Amalfi Coast, who brings in some of the world-famous Sorrento lemons. They prepare whole-wheat spaghetti with a simple sauce featuring lemon rind and bottarga (salted fish roe).

Pupia.Tv – Turin – We are History. Julius Caesar as fan of Juventus. This is the storyline of an ad promoting the Juventus team’s new stadium. The actor Pietro Sermonti is in the title role, portraying the most Roman of emperors, and unexpected fan of the black and white.

How do you like your coffee? Find out how Cettina likes hers!

The great Lucio Dalla offers this song in support of a campaign aimed at raising sensitivity towards those with disabilities, looking at them without prejudice, as people with the same dignity and desire for happiness as everyone else. Learn more at www.pubblicitaprogresso.org

This clip is from the 2012 organ donating campaign by Pubblicità Progresso The music is from Tu che sei parte di me by Pacifico, featuring Christina Marocco. Visit: http://www.doniamo.org

Composting is becoming more and more popular in Italy, and many towns will supply you with a composter, not to mention a discount on your sanitation expenses! In addition, there's plenty of useful new vocabulary in this video, The voice over is not particularly slow, but it's nice and clear.

Jake, Matt and John form Radio Smile, a new Italian Rock Band. They show us their new space and promise to keep all their fans updated on their activities.

A delightful television commercial with Christian De Sica, for “Parmacotto” ham. De Sica tries to charm a beautiful customer, but his wife shows up and ruins their flirtation.

TIM ad in which De Sica tries to flirt with the beautiful Adriana. His daughter, however, jumps in and ruins everything because she threatens to tell all to her mother.

Another ad from TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) with Christian de Sica who plays a traffic cop. He tries to stop some kids who form a "Tribe", using the new phone rates from TIM. Valentino Rossi, a renowned motorcyclist, also appears in the ad.

De Sica, speaking in a heavy Roman accent, plays a skeptical traffic cop who stops Santa and his truck. The truck is full of cellphones intended as gifts. A passerby, Valentino Rossi, sees that it really is Santa and the officer pays dearly for his lack of faith.

Ad for Maxxi Day Vacanze [Maxxi Day Vacations], a calling card on offer to TIM clients during the summer months. Christian De Sica plays a clueless uncle who doesn't get what it's about and thinks it involves ice cream.

Elisabetta Canalis, Italian TV hostess par excellence, appears as an inexperienced taxi driver. She asks the police if she can call them if she gets into difficulty, seeing as how she has an economical cellphone plan.

Christian De Sica goes to speak with his son's Latin teacher. He's annoyed about having to go, until he sees that the teacher is a beautiful woman (Belen Rodriguez). He quickly comes about, passing himself off as an expert in Latin.

For a TV commercial in Germany, Elisabetta Canalis, Italian actress and showgirl, lends her image to "Giotto" chocolates, made by the Italian company, Ferrero.

English names for things are more and more popular in Italy. The original famous Italian cookie Pan di Stelle (star bread) is a rich, caloric, chocolate and hazelnut cookie. The Mooncake is a slightly less caloric, and creamier spinoff.

Pupia.Tv – The Auction – Referendum commercial Public Water. On June 12th and 13th vote 2 Yesses against the privatization of water. The ad was produced by the commitee for public water of Velletri. Directed and edited by Luca D’Annibale. Idea and script by Astrid Lima. General organization – Annalisa Marroni.

This video is a Sky Sport advertisement, and was filmed with some of the most important players, for example, Totti, Marchisio, and Perrotta.

In this ad, heroic Giuseppe Garibaldi is stereotyped as a mammone (mama's boy), still under the thumb of his mammina (dear mother), stereotypical overprotective Italian mother.