The segment looks at the Royal Academy of Italy's dictionary of Italian, which was filled with quotes from Mussolini. By the end of World War II, the dictionary had gotten to the letter “C.”
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Caption 13 [it]: "Combatté e fu nella battaglia morto". Boccaccio. Caption 13 [en]: “He fought and died in battle.” Boccaccio.
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 1 [it]: [In Sicilia il passato non è morto, esso vive in noi e con noi, Caption 1 [en]: [In Sicily, the past isn't dead, it lives on in us and with us.