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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Crepax loved playing at battles and would change the outcomes, using his friends to fine-tune the moves. He had some famous personalities as willing participants in the games, too.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Which came first? Blow-Up or Ciao Valentina? Which work stole from the other? In any case, there are some striking similarities.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 16 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

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

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The alternative tourism video starts by showing some of Rome's iconic sites, but will focus on less well-known quarters, such as the Salario-Trieste neighborhood in north Rome.

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Rome's Coppedè Quarter is the focus of the segment. Its eclectic style is difficult to characterize, but the narrator talks of the liberty style, which stems from the Liberty department store in London. In English, we know this style by the French term, Art Nouveau.

I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The segment shows us some interiors in Coppedè's dream-inspired complex.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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