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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

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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 36 [it]: Io, appunto, da bravo ragazzo ebreo,
Caption 36 [en]: As a good Jewish boy, as I was saying,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 10

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Still on the beach, Pasolini asks more people their opinions on divorce, which became legal in 1970. The second part of this segment is part of a 1969 episode of Processo alla tappa, a TV talk show devoted to the Giro d'Italia (the Tour of Italy), a famous, 21-stage bike race.

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Caption 21 [it]: E infatti ci sono de li casi perché [romanesco: dei casi in cui], appunto, si ammazzano,
Caption 21 [en]: And in fact there are cases in which, indeed, they kill each other,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 9

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

In a Q & A, Pasolini explains to a journalist what he means when he refers to the elite. In another clip, he asks people on the beach about sex.

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Caption 37 [it]: Posso benissimo trovarla, appunto,
Caption 37 [en]: I can very easily find it, indeed,

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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 38 [it]: perché ci abitavano, appunto, le persone che lavoravano al porto,
Caption 38 [en]: due to the people who lived there, indeed, those who worked at the port,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Pasolini is asked what he thinks about progress and development. He is also asked about the inspiration he seems to have taken from subjects of the New Testament of the Bible.

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Caption 8 [it]: perché, appunto perché non sono un sociologo o un professore,
Caption 8 [en]: because, precisely because I am not a sociologist or a professor,

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues talking with Paolo Giordano, who talks about how places such as Afghanistan and Apulia have influenced his writing.

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Caption 45 [it]: quella paura di avere, appunto, una totale...
Caption 45 [en]: that fear of having, indeed, a total...

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 6

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

In this segment, we're on the set with Pasolini as he shouts directions to Totò through his megaphone, and at the same time discusses the shoot with his crew. Naturally, authenticity often means people speak over each other, so it's hard to understand what is said. Then, Pasolini is asked by a journalist about his views on neorealism and here, the speech is clearer (and interesting), so don't give up!

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Caption 7 [it]: A meno che non abbia sbagliato la macchina. -Appunto, è quello il pericolo,
Caption 7 [en]: Unless the camera made a mistake. -Exactly, that's the danger,

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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 60 [it]: E mentre Vita appunto cominciava a mangiare,
Caption 60 [en]: And while Vita, as I mentioned, started eating,

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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 50 [it]: perché, appunto, io non avendo mai vissuto con mio padre,
Caption 50 [en]: because, exactly, never having lived with my father,

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This segment recounts how Aldo De Rosa and Margherita met in a park in Florence as kids and later married. Aldo supported her in her scientific work throughout their marriage, which lasted over seventy years.

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Caption 14 [it]: appunto, fino a novant'anni.
Caption 14 [en]: indeed, up to ninety years of age.

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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 12 [it]: e in particolare, appunto, nell'astronomia.
Caption 12 [en]: and in particular, precisely, in astronomy.

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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 9 [it]: così, quasi, appunto iconografica, così,
Caption 9 [en]: so, almost, actually iconographic, so,

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Not only did she win a Nobel prize; in her own country, she was appointed as a Senator for life, a great honor. But she took that job seriously and participated actively and with integrity. Not everyone appreciated that.

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Caption 39 [it]: Li trattò per quello che erano, appunto dei miserabili.
Caption 39 [en]: She treated them for what they were, despicable people, essentially.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini doesn't feel like she made any sacrifices in her life, including not having a family. She had a clear vision of what she wanted out of life, and she followed it.

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Caption 2 [it]: fino, appunto, al settore
Caption 2 [en]: right up, indeed, to the branch

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 19

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Giorgio is getting settled in his new office and gets an unexpected and unwelcome visitor. Giuseppe has a big evening ahead of him with Elena and her father, but he gets some news he has to take care of and is delayed.

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Caption 34 [it]: Appunto, l'uomo che hanno ricoverato stamattina...
Caption 34 [en]: Exactly. The man they admitted this morning...

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