Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini talks about what, as a little girl, she wanted to be when she grew up. One of her main goals was to help women, especially ones from poor countries, become what they were meant to become.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Moscati risks his life to save some of the patients from the hospital. It took courage and patience.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini dedicated a great part of her life to young people, especially young researchers, and though she had no children of her own, she felt that all kinds of young people were like sons and daughters to her.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In 1906 Vesuvius erupted, its worst eruption of the entire 20th century. Torre del Greco, a town near Vesuvius, was particularly affected. Buildings collapsed, sick people were trapped inside the hospitals, and Giuseppe and Giorgio rushed there to help out.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini felt that imagination was the "secret sauce" of her research. And this encouraged her to turn to young people, who have plenty of imagination. She didn't hesitate to teach kids of junior high school age, which came as a surprise to some people, since she was a winner of the Nobel prize.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Giorgio goes to see Cloe perform again, while Giuseppe takes Elena to a place that isn't easy to reach. The two friends are clearly in love.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini talks about when she won the Nobel Prize in 1986. Her niece, Piera, tells the story from her point of view, and Paola Tarassi, a research student of hers, tells about studying with her after she had already won the Nobel.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Moscati continues to disobey the rules of the hospital. Nobody can deny, however, that he is having some success with his methods.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Comedian and actor Caterina Guzzanti is a guest at a middle school in Afragola, in the province of Naples, a school named after Rita Levi Montalcini. Guzzanti meets with the students from the theater class for a lesson on the imagination, which has a lot of importance in her work but was also very important to the great researcher from Turin, Montalcini.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Giuseppe stays late at work, which he is not allowed to do, and he gets an unusual visitor.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Giuseppe's passion for his work puts his patients' well-being ahead of following the rules and getting chastised by his superiors. Giorgio is much more easygoing and as soon as the shift is over, is ready to have fun.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Giuseppe walks through the market and witnesses a scene whereby a carabiniere policeman chases down a kid who was trying to steal some food. The kid is one Giuseppe has seen before.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alberto is doing the right thing, but it's not easy. He goes to the reformatory for a last meeting with the director. This is the finale of the first of two episodes in this mini-series.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The evening Giorgio planned to spend with Cloe doesn't turn out as he had hoped. The next day at the hospital, on their first day of work, Giorgio and Giuseppe get to know Sister Helga who rules with an iron fist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alberto Manzi gets his degree after his oral exam defending his dissertation, but now he has some tough decisions to make about his future.
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