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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12

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.

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Caption 15 [it]: Quindi, insomma, è...
Caption 15 [en]: So, in short, it's...

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 11

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.

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Caption 12 [it]: perché mi pare troppo, però insomma,
Caption 12 [en]: because it seems too much to me, but in short,

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10

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).

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Caption 16 [it]: è l'humus in cui si è formata la... sì, la mia narrativa, insomma.
Caption 16 [en]: it's the humus in which my narrative was formed, basically.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 9

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.

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Caption 48 [it]: e quindi, insomma, crescere qua
Caption 48 [en]: and so, in short, growing up here

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 7

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.

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Caption 29 [it]: per chiedere, insomma, se...
Caption 29 [en]: to ask, basically, if...

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 6

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).

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Caption 8 [it]: Insomma, esistono o no i veri romani?
Caption 8 [en]: In short, do real Romans exist or not?

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Chiara Gamberale talks about how and where she writes, and how her life has changed now that she has a little girl.

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Caption 21 [it]: Eh, insomma, no.
Caption 21 [en]: Uh, basically, no.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Elena seems charmed by the orphans and Giuseppe explains to her that love has many pathways. At home, it becomes clear that Nina and Giuseppe have grave financial difficulties. He won't give up seeing patients, but comes up with an idea.

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Caption 33 [it]: fatti dare la tariffa intera delle visite, insomma. -Ho capito.
Caption 33 [en]: make them give you the entire fee for the examinations, in short. -I understand.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We discover that Margherita Hack was a devoted fan of the long-running TV series, Un posto al sole [a place in the sun]. She explains why. Francesca goes back to Trieste and meets up with Eda who talks about having lived in the same house with Margherita Hack.

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Caption 61 [it]: Be', poi, sì, insomma, lei, al di là, so che aveva un rapporto molto... -Sì.
Caption 61 [en]: Well, besides, yes, basically, she, beyond that, I know that she had a relationship that was very... -Yes.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Perhaps not everyone knows that Margherita Hack as a girl was quite the athlete. Her sport was track and field. She also had a passion for cycling and rode her bike well into her seventies.

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Caption 20 [it]: insomma, mi ha chiesto quale sport preferivo.
Caption 20 [en]: basically, she asked me what sport I liked best.

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Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Our narrator describes what it was like working on the set of La porta del cielo (the Gates of Heaven): the extras, the dangers, the boredom, and the strategies for keeping the cast and crew safe. He also explains how they reconstructed the railway carriages that are featured so prominently in the film.

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Caption 14 [it]: Insomma, sotterranei come questi,
Caption 14 [en]: In short, basements like these,

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Eda discovered Margherita Hack on a TV show hosted by Piero Angela. This changed Eda's life. Margherita as a young scientist had a rough time in a profession where men were the important ones and had little regard for women.

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Caption 10 [it]: e... quindi, insomma, son' fatti, non son' parole.
Caption 10 [en]: and... so, basically, they are facts, not words.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The documentary concludes with some valuable advice from Rita Levi-Montalcini about how to live one's life. People who knew her offer some adjectives to describe who she was.

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Caption 49 [it]: Insomma, si rivolgeva a tutti noi.
Caption 49 [en]: Basically, she addressed all of us.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In her final years, Rita Levi-Montalci was very, very frail, but she never lost her combative spirit. Romano Prodi recalls the last time he saw her.

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Caption 45 [it]: nonostante che non vedesse più, insomma,
Caption 45 [en]: despite the fact that she could basically no longer see,

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Non è mai troppo tardi - EP1 - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The prison director refuses Alberto's request for writing materials, so he takes matters into his own hands, and learns a thing or two from his pupils, too.

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Caption 3 [it]: Ma insomma, Le sto solo chiedendo qualche matita, direttore
Caption 3 [en]: But basically, I am just asking for some pencils, Director,

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