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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 13

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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

Difficulty: Intermediate

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

Difficulty: Intermediate

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

Difficulty: Intermediate

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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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean? Alberto answers this question and others about one of the most famous monuments in the world.

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Caption 23 [it]: Ma insomma, il fascino di questa torre
Caption 23 [en]: But basically, the charm of this tower

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Meraviglie - EP. 3 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This video focuses on one of the most famous artists of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. In particular, we start looking at one of his greatest masterpieces, the Last Supper.

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Caption 25 [it]: Insomma, vuole trasformare questa Chiesa in una specie di cappella di famiglia.
Caption 25 [en]: In short, he wants to transform this church into a kind of family chapel.

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Meraviglie - EP. 2 - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angelo tells us the fascinating story of how trulli are built. Some of the most characteristic trulli can be found in Alberobello.

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Caption 58 [it]: I Trulli, insomma, lo abbiamo visto,
Caption 58 [en]: The trulli, all in all, as we have seen,

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Meraviglie - EP. 2 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

As opposed to the classical palaces of the powerful, with their throne rooms and great halls, Castel del Monte has some smaller and more intimate spaces, conducive to more personal encounters. Over the centuries, the castle was exploited in different ways, well into modern times.

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Caption 4 [it]: Insomma, è molto diverso,
Caption 4 [en]: In other words, it's very different

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Meraviglie - EP. 2 - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela takes us inside Castel del Monte and helps us imagine what it might have looked like when it was "alive." He uses the term piano nobile, which indicates the floor of a mansion where the noblemen or landowners lived, as opposed to the floors where the servants' quarters and kitchens would have been.

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Caption 55 [it]: insomma, tutta la sala era foderata di marmi,
Caption 55 [en]: in other words, the whole room was covered with marble,

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