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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We discover that Margherita Hack was a devoted fan of the long-running TV series, Un posto al sole [a place in the sun]. She explains why. Francesca goes back to Trieste and meets up with Eda who talks about having lived in the same house with Margherita Hack.

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Caption 31 [it]: [Ciao Eda! Sono appena rientrata a Trieste]
Caption 31 [en]: [Hi Eda! I just got back to Trieste]

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Aldo and Margherita stuck together. He might get bored at her lectures, but he would always be there. They both shared a love for sports and motocycles.

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Caption 34 [it]: Margherita appena poteva andava all'estero.
Caption 34 [en]: Margherita, as soon as she could, would go abroad.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This segment recounts how Aldo De Rosa and Margherita met in a park in Florence as kids and later married. Aldo supported her in her scientific work throughout their marriage, which lasted over seventy years.

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Caption 24 [it]: [Non ci crederai, l'ho appena incontrato]
Caption 24 [en]: [You won't believe it. I just met him]

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

A car problem allows us to meet Eda Gjergo, a young astrophysicist, who will in turn lead us to meet Margherita Hack, the subject of this episode about women luminaries. Hack was a famous scientist, communicator, and activist.

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Caption 34 [it]: entra un attimo e appena finisco t'aiuto, va bene?
Caption 34 [en]: come in for a moment and as soon as I finish, I will help you, all right?

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La pittura più bella del mondo - La Resurrezione di Piero della Francesca - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We learn some more about the origins of Piero's Resurrection and why it might have been commissioned. As with other works of art, the Resurrection likely had political symbolism as well as religious symbolism.

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Caption 20 [it]: A Firenze, nel settembre, è stata appena scoperta e sventata
Caption 20 [en]: In Florence, in September, just discovered and blocked was

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Meraviglie - S2 EP3 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

There are a good ninety rooms in Palazzo Nicolaci. As on the outside of the building, symbolism pervades every space, as if there were the fear of emptiness. And, in true Baroque style, it was all created to amaze the eye of the beholder.

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Caption 30 [it]: appena a quarantanove anni, intorno alla metà del Settecento.
Caption 30 [en]: at just forty-nine, around the middle of the eighteenth century.

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Fuori era primavera - Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We come to the end of this story of the lockdown in Italy, told through amateur videos, all gathered and coordinated by Gabriele Salvatores.

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Caption 20 [it]: e appena svegli, tuffo in acqua.
Caption 20 [en]: and as soon as you wake up, a dive into the water.

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Meraviglie - S2 EP 2 - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela continues showing us some of the details of the decorations within the San Carlo Theater. He recounts a special coffee beverage invented there, and an anecdote about the composer Gioacchino Rossini who was the musical director there for a time.

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Caption 62 [it]: e aveva appena ventitré anni,
Caption 62 [en]: and he was just twenty-three years old,

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Meraviglie - S2 EP 2 - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In the eighteenth centiury, the San Carlo Theater was a magnificent center for opera and culture, and still is today. It's one of the most beautiful theaters in all of Europe.

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Caption 23 [it]: ci vollero appena otto mesi per concludere i lavori
Caption 23 [en]: it took a mere eight months to complete the work,

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Meraviglie - S2EP1 - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We are back visiting nature's own wonders, this time up in the mountains, on Mont Blanc, to be precise, at an altitude of over 4000 meters.

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Caption 11 [it]: Quella che avete appena ascoltato
Caption 11 [en]: What you just heard

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Meraviglie - S2EP1 - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela describes the discovery of the Ancona Abyss, named after the city the speleologists were from. It’s part of the Great Wind Cave.

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Caption 17 [it]: non appena aprirono queste piccole aperture,
Caption 17 [en]: as soon as they opened these small openings,

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We're in Assisi, where, during some excavations, a domus was discovered. It's clear it belonged to a wealthy family because of the richness of the wall and floor decorations, and might even have been the home of the poet Propertius.

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Caption 44 [it]: che abbiamo appena visto.
Caption 44 [en]: that we just looked at.

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Eleonora - Igor e Gloriosa

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Eleonora introduces us to her two horses. She tells the story of how they came to be part of her life.

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Caption 23 [it]: Era un cavallo che appena sentiva la campana dell'inizio della gara,
Caption 23 [en]: He was a horse that as soon as he heard the starting bell of the competition,

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We get a look at the tomb, in terracotta, of a noblewoman. The clay allows for detail, where tombs in Macco do not. We then go to Rome, to the most important Etruscan museum, where we see once again, what an important role the afterlife played in the lives (and deaths) of the Etruscans.

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Caption 26 [it]: Le abbiamo qui, appena un po' abbozzate
Caption 26 [en]: We have them here, slightly sketched in,

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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela gives us a simplified but fascinating description of how the Alps, and the Dolomites in particular, were formed from the sea. He goes on to tell a completely different story involving the Dolomites.

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Caption 41 [it]: come quella che abbiamo appena visto.
Caption 41 [en]: like the one we just saw,

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