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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 6

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Italy

La serata che Giorgio aveva pianificato di trascorrere con Cloe non è andata proprio come pensava. In ospedale, nel loro primo giorno, Suor Helga mette al corrente Giuseppe e Giorgio delle rigide regole ospedaliere.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Giuseppe è sempre più affascinato dalla bella Elena, la quale ha apprezzato le doti di ballerino di Giuseppe. Anche se è ormai sera, Giuseppe sta ancora sui libri in vista della prova d'esame del giorno successivo.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

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Arcangelo and Sister Helga don't like each other much, but they have to work together to save the patient. At home, at lunch, Giuseppe has a strange feeling and rushes off.

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Caption 38 [it]: una di giorno e una di notte.
Caption 38 [en]: one during the day and one at night.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini was a strong proponent of education and instruction as the means to gain freedom. She was also an example of it. This segment describes a visit to women in prison, and the obstacles Montalcini had to face, as a woman and as a Jew, during the Nazi-Fascist regime.

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Caption 29 [it]: Rita un giorno mi chiese di andare a trovare
Caption 29 [en]: One day, Rita asked me to go and visit

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Non è mai troppo tardi - EP1 - Part 19

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Alberto goes out on a limb with a pretty amazing surprise for his pupils. Ida is quite concerned, but Alberto is adamant.

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Caption 18 [it]: Stanotte non se [romanesco: si] fa mai giorno.
Caption 18 [en]: Tonight, day never comes.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Giorgio takes his friend Giuseppe to a ball in honor of Princess Elena Cajafa. Giuseppe feels out of place, but Giorgio insists on having him meet some important people, hoping it will help his career, not to mention the entrance exam they have the following day.

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Caption 9 [it]: La baronessa si inventa ogni giorno una malattia diversa
Caption 9 [en]: The baroness invents, each day, a different illness

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Schools in fascist Italy banned the study of dialects and moved to using standardized textbooks. The fascist hymn “Viva Adua nostra” refers to a battle won by the Kingdom of Italy in 1896 near Adwa, Ethiopia.

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Caption 3 [it]: E se restava [toscano: fosse rimasta] ancora qualche giorno,
Caption 3 [en]: And if he'd stayed on a few more days,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.

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Caption 3 [it]: Sciascia era molto amico mio, ci vedevamo quasi ogni giorno.
Caption 3 [en]: Sciascia was a very good friend of mine, we saw each other almost every day.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 9

Difficulty: 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.

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Caption 27 [it]: È un'umanità sofferente quella che incontra ogni giorno Pitrè,
Caption 27 [en]: It is a suffering humanity, the one Pitrè encounters every day,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 8

Difficulty: 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.

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Caption 72 [it]: Ca jornu dopu jornu pari ca s'alluntana [che sembra allontanarsi giorno dopo giorno]
Caption 72 [en]: Which seems to distance itself day by day

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 5

Difficulty: 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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Caption 90 [it]: Un giorno del milleottocentosessantasei, durante una battaglia garibaldina,
Caption 90 [en]: One day in eighteen sixty-six, during a Garibaldian battle,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.

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Caption 36 [it]: Un jorno [Un giorno], un ricco castellano,
Caption 36 [en]: One day, a rich manor lord,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè was an ethnologist who collected documents pertaining to Sicily and its culture and traditions. His work is the basis for this documentary, which unites live footage, drawings, and archival documents.

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Caption 11 [it]: e ricordo un giorno di festa:
Caption 11 [en]: and I remember a holiday:

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