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In giro per l'Italia - Roma La bocca della verità

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Fulvio describes the monument we look at in this segment before telling what it is. The story has some pretty surprising aspects.

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Caption 58 [it]: Su questo mascherone, insomma, incombe una leggenda celeberrima.
Caption 58 [en]: On this big mask, basically, hangs a very celebrated legend.

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In giro per l'Italia - Pentidattilo - Part 3

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Italy

Rossella feels that it's her mission to show people this marvelous place. She dedicates part of her home to guests from all over the world.

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Caption 35 [it]: eh, penso che non te ne sei pentito [sic: penso che tu non ti sia pentito] di avermi ascoltato, insomma.
Caption 35 [en]: uh, I don't think you regret having listened to me, basically.

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In giro per l'Italia - Pentidattilo - Part 2

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Italy

What a wonderful place Pentidattilo had been, but then plastic arrived and pretty much ruined everything.

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Caption 23 [it]: e insomma dovevi appartenere a questa civiltà che avanzava.
Caption 23 [en]: and basically, you had to belong to this civilization that was advancing.

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In giro per l'Italia - Venezia - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika takes us to the piazza where Marco Polo supposedly lived. But which house is it? She asks a local. The name of the square is Corte Seconda del Milion. Il Milion is the Italian name of the book, The Travels of Marco Polo.

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Caption 21 [it]: ma non è così scontato, insomma,
Caption 21 [en]: but we can't assume that, basically,

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In giro per l'Italia - Venezia - Part 2

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Italy

Marika shows us a famous bookshop in Venice. It's in a critical position with respect to the water level, so special precautions are taken to protect the books when there are high tides. Fascinating!

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Caption 31 [it]: E questo è quanto, insomma.
Caption 31 [en]: And that's it, in short.

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

If you have ever visited Italy, you have probably run across the term pinacoteca describing a picture gallery, and wondered where it came from. You will find out in this video about a room called the "tablinum" in the Assisi domus, discovered because they wanted to build an elevator!

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Caption 64 [it]: Insomma, sotto una prima meraviglia
Caption 64 [en]: In short, underneath a first wonder

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 9

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Italy

The Etruscans were influenced by other ethnic groups, particularly the Greeks. On display in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, we find evidence of this in the terracotta objects and fine gold jewelry and precious objects dating from the period.

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Caption 55 [it]: insomma, c'è già una situazione un po' di piaceri della vita.
Caption 55 [en]: In short, there is already a kind of situation of the pleasures of life.

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 6

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Italy

This magnificent, colorful tomb, dating to twenty-five hundred years ago, depicts a banquet in honor of the deceased, who is clearly a young man. It's a virtual time capsule.

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Caption 58 [it]: Insomma, sembra quasi, a tanti, tanti secoli di distanza,
Caption 58 [en]: Basically, it almost seems, at many, many centuries away —

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Matuna family tomb contains many plaster reproductions of everyday objects, adding to the story of how the Etruscans lived. We move on to Tarquinia, where the tombs were carved out of a sedimentary limestone called Macco, allowing the colorful wall paintings to be preserved.

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Caption 1 [it]: Insomma, è qualcosa di estremamente vivido
Caption 1 [en]: In short, it is something extremely vivid

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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

There is a legend about the Dolomites, which has to do with a famous rose garden.

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Caption 17 [it]: Ma insomma, tutte queste tradizioni, queste culture
Caption 17 [en]: But basically, all these traditions, these cultures

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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela gives us a simplified but fascinating description of how the Alps, and the Dolomites in particular, were formed from the sea. He goes on to tell a completely different story involving the Dolomites.

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Caption 38 [it]: Insomma, le Dolomiti sono, se volete,
Caption 38 [en]: Basically, the Dolomites are, if you will,

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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 15

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The final segment of this tour of Umbria and Tuscany brings to the walls of Pisa and its famous schools of higher learning. As usual, Alberto Angela gives us some insight into how and why things happened as they did, as Pisa developed into one of the most beautiful and important cities in Italy.

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Caption 30 [it]: Insomma, creatività, genialità e anche ricerca
Caption 30 [en]: In short, creativity, genius, and also research

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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The fresco depicting the Last Judgement is almost like a photograph of the Middle Ages. Alberto Angela shows us where the sinners ended up and what happened to them in Hell.

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Caption 41 [it]: insomma sono scene agghiaccianti.
Caption 41 [en]: all in all, they are chilling scenes.

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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 10

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Italy

We learn a great deal about the third structure at the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa: the Baptistery. We learn about wonders we can see and wonders we can't see.

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Caption 19 [it]: Be', insomma, le cose non stanno proprio così.
Caption 19 [en]: Well, in short, that's not exactly how things stand.

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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We go inside the Pisa Cathedral and see how marvelous it is, from the granite columns to the majestic pulpit designed by Giovanni Pisano, which, miraculously, survived the fire of 1595.

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Caption 40 [it]: E insomma, ci sono veramente delle opere scolpite sapientemente.
Caption 40 [en]: In short, there are truly skillfully sculpted works.

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