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I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The tour draws to a close in Rome's rougher neighborhoods, those that were particularly fascinating to poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

A woman performs a traditional Sicilian ritual involving the sticking of pins into an onion, accompanied by prayers, in order to bring back the boyfriend of her suppliant.

Itinerari Della Bellezza - Abruzzo - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The Abruzzo Region, sometimes known as the Abruzzi with an i in older publications, is the area of interest for this six-segment video. This segment concentrates on the Piccolomini Castle in Marsica.

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Rome's many bridges are the focus of this video, including the Ponte Rotto, which dates back to ancient Rome. Only part of the Ponte Rotto is still standing and this is why it is called rotto or broken. Rivers are masculine in Italian, and ancient Roman statues portray River Gods as recumbent elderly men with long beards.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

We visit the cemetery where the English poets are buried, and learn about the relationship between the Tiber River and the city of Rome.

La campagna toscana - Il contadino - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy Tuscan

Natale is proud of his fava beans, which he plans to harvest in time for the holiday family gathering on May first. Other featured produce includes artichokes and wild asparagus.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The narrator reads some moving passages from the letters of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet and near contemporary to Keats and Shelley, also lived in Piazza di Spagna.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), recognized by her crown of roses, is Palermo's patron saint. The video shows the July 14 parade in honor of the saint, and a young man who credits his cure from a grave illness to Saint Rosalia.

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The segment touches on Byron and Shelley, but is mostly about Keats and his time in Rome. It also includes part of a beautiful love letter to Fanny Brawne. The narrator speaks of Keats living on the second floor. The Italian way of counting stories is to call the first floor, the ground floor, and the numbering starts above.

La campagna toscana - Il contadino - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy Tuscan

Natale tends his vegetable garden and tries to save his strawberry plants from the neighbor's chickens.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Pitrè's mission was to conserve and safeguard the traditions of his people, the Sicilians, and to keep the roots alive. Looking at religious traditions is one important way to do this.

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

More dreamy interiors of the Coppedè complex and an introduction to the Keats–Shelley House in Piazza di Spagna.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.

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