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Fuori era primavera - Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Gli operatori sanitari sono stati in prima linea nella lotta contro il Covid. Una di loro ci racconta brevemente cosa succede nei reparti della terapia intensiva. Un'intera famiglia decide di trasferirsi nella loro casa sull'isola di Tavolara perché isolarsi, appunto, era l'unico modo per sopravvivere durante la prima ondata. Mentre una folla di gente in fuga al sud invade la stazione centrale di Milano, la città si svuota. Un rider ci mostra la desolazione di Milano e le difficoltà di lavorare durante una pandemia.

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Meraviglie - S2 EP 2 - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Quello che è rimasto dell'immensa cattedrale di Sant'Andrea è il portale, commissionato da un nobiluomo di Amalfi, nel quale sono raffigurate delle figure sacre tra cui, appunto, Sant'Andrea.

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L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We get a glimpse of the spaces where a show takes shape, from sewing the costumes, to creating the sets and backdrops. When a model of a set arrives, the job of the team is to translate it into reality, into something big.

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Caption 15 [it]: e la cosa, appunto, più interessante
Caption 15 [en]: and the most interesting thing, indeed,

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L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Angelo Inglese talks about how the company got its start, back in the fifties. His widowed grandmother and a next-door neighbor began sewing. Now, the company strives to be an enhancement to the old city of Ginosa.

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Caption 32 [it]: Diventerà, appunto, il nostro quartier generale,
Caption 32 [en]: It would, in fact, become our headquarters

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L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Italy is known for fashion, and that includes shirts. Angelo Inglese, a shirtmaker from Ginosa, in Apulia, talks about how his shirts stand out for being inspired by local traditions, notably embroidery and crocheting.

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Caption 29 [it]: Arte ereditata, appunto, dalla tradizione antica,
Caption 29 [en]: Art inherited, in point of fact, from old tradition,

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L'Italia che piace - Territori - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The first place we visit is practically a theater on a mountain, designed and built to replicate places with religious significance in the Holy Land. The mountain, aptly named, is Sacro Monte (sacred or holy mountain) and is located in Piemonte, to the northwest of Milan.

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Caption 26 [it]: e che culminava poi, appunto,
Caption 26 [en]: and that subsequently culminated, indeed,

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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 6 [it]: come appunto in Jean-Luc Godard,
Caption 6 [en]: indeed, just like in Jean-Luc Godard,

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Who was the model for Valentina? Certainly, the actress Louise Brooks who portrayed Lulu in the movie Pandora's Box directed by G.W Pabst (based on two plays by Frank Wedekind), but also Crepax's wife, Luisa Mandelli.

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Caption 3 [it]: perché è la foto appunto di Louise Brooks,
Caption 3 [en]: because it is precisely the photo of Louise Brooks,

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Just as in Cubist art, Crepax would design his figures to be seen from various points of view simultaneously. Sometimes he would use small windows to attract attention rather than making them larger.

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Caption 8 [it]: che, appunto, che fosse coordinata
Caption 8 [en]: that, indeed, that it was coordinated

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Guido Crepax's son Antonio talks about the day Antonio Custra was killed in May of 1977, during an armed demonstration in Milan. This was during the so-called anni di piombo (years of lead), a period of social turmoil, political violence and upheaval that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism and violent clashes. Many demonstrators were arrested, but Antonio Crepax managed not to get loaded onto a paddy wagon.

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Caption 3 [it]: e hanno sparato come appunto si vedono
Caption 3 [en]: and they fired, in fact, as we can see

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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 2 [it]: appunto, metafore di se stessi, in qualche modo, no.
Caption 2 [en]: precisely, metaphors of themselves, somehow, you know.

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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 50 [it]: perché, appunto, io non avendo mai vissuto con mio padre,
Caption 50 [en]: because, exactly, never having lived with my father,

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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 14 [it]: appunto, fino a novant'anni.
Caption 14 [en]: indeed, up to ninety years of age.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Eda discovered Margherita Hack on a TV show hosted by Piero Angela. This changed Eda's life. Margherita as a young scientist had a rough time in a profession where men were the important ones and had little regard for women.

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Caption 12 [it]: e in particolare, appunto, nell'astronomia.
Caption 12 [en]: and in particular, precisely, in astronomy.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In her final years, Rita Levi-Montalci was very, very frail, but she never lost her combative spirit. Romano Prodi recalls the last time he saw her.

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Caption 9 [it]: così, quasi, appunto iconografica, così,
Caption 9 [en]: so, almost, actually iconographic, so,

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