Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondi is a sculptor who lives and works in Pietrasanta, a Tuscan town famous for its marble and marble sculptors. He talks about an upcoming exhibition.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
That's Italy allows us to discover different aspects of Italian style. This first episode features Basilicata, a region offering places of astonishing beauty that few know and few appreciate.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Roman
Massimiliano is a musician, and together with his friend Stefano, and the mascot Cuba, he's trying to introduce the group to record labels. In addition to talking about his dream, he talks about Garbatella, the neighborhood where he was born, and which he wants never to leave.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Interview with Walter Caporale, national president of Animalisti Italiani [Italian Association for the Rights of Animals], whose mission is safeguarding the life of domestic animals and the prevention of cruelty towards them.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
QNM interviews Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencing pro, specialized in foils. She's the first female fencer in the world to receive three consecutive Olympic gold medals. She's also won five other world titles and five European titles (in individual matches). You should watch our video proverbi italiani afterwards.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Milanese
Interview with Cipriano Moneta, Italian Country Manager of XING. Moneta talks about his work on this start-up social network, and why it will succeed. Moneta worked for many years in recruitment and believes XING will be extremely useful for job hunters.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Milanese
An interview with Cipriano Moneta, the national manager of Xing Italy, a social network for professionals. He tells us why Xing is much more useful than Facebook or Twitter.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Alessandro Piperno comes from a mixed Jewish family and recounts how he learned, at an early age, to cherish the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome, where Christianity and Judaism blend. Thus we come to the end of this episode about the region of Lazio.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Annalena continues her conversation with Piperno in his favorite restaurant. They look at some photos from his past while they wait for their meal to be served.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Alessandro explains some things about the characters in his books and tells a story about when he won the Strega award. The Strega Award is the most important Italian literary award. It gets its name from one of its creators, the owner of the company producing Strega, a brand of an amaro (after-dinner, digestive bitters).
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Leaving the outskirts of Rome, Annalena goes to a middle-class neighborhood where she meets professor and writer, Alessandro Piperno. He talks about what it was like growing up there and about his identity as a writer.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Melania Mazzucco grew up in a part of Rome on the outskirts, not the part people usually associate with the beautiful city. The white Fiat 500 her father bought for the family became an important part of her life.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Melania talks about her relationship with her father when he was still alive. He didn't say much, but unbeknownst to her, tried to get a story of hers published. She talks about one her favorite parts of Rome: Isola Tiberina (Tiber Island), the only river island in the part of the Tiber that runs through Rome.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Melania Gaia Mazzucco talks about one of her novels set in seventeenth-century Trastevere, quite a different place than what we see today. Although she has traveled the world, Mazzucco comes from generations of romani di Roma (Romans from Rome).
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Armando talks about how the works of Duchamp influenced his work and that of so many contemporary artists. The choice of a unique exhibition hall played a part, as well.
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