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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Crepax started out with one protagonist, Philip Rembrandt, but gradually phased him out, along with his superpowers. Valentina then took over as the protagonist. Crepax talks about Milan in the sixties.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita left a legacy of progress, both scientific and social. Perhaps she is still looking down on us, since an asteroid was named after her: 8558 Hack.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

This documentary is about Guido Crepax, the creator of a famous fumetto (comic strip) that came out in 1965. The main characters are Philip Rembrandt, an art critic, and Valentina Rosselli, a photojournalist.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Even though Aldo and Margherita were very different in many ways, they came together in their skepticism. Towards the end of her life, Margherita couldn't move around much, but her brain never stopped going.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

In this segment, Margherita talks about her choice not to have children and also discusses her position regarding God. She can't prove he exists nor can she prove he doesn't.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack spent some time in politics and was also an entrepreneur at times. But she had a lot of fun, too. On the panel with Camilleri, the author of the Montalbano stories, they all come out (in unison) with the famous introduction Montalbano sono (Montalbano, I am). Putting the verb at the end is typical of Sicily, where the story takes place. Otherwise, it would be Sono Montalbano (I'm Montalbano) or, on the phone, "This is Montalbano."

Casa Pappagallo - Scarpariello

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

We have hunted down a video recipe for the dish Letizia serves Lojacono at her trattoria in I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone. With its simple ingredients and preparation, we hope you'll try it sometime! The recipe is likely Neapolitan and its name has to do with shoemakers!

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack was a scientist and communicator, but she also expressed her opinions about attualità (current events). Part of this segment features a panel discussion she held with author Andrea Camilleri, best known for his novels about Inspector Montalbano that became a popular TV series.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack's talents lay not only in her greatness as a scientist, but also in her remarkable ability to communicate with the general public, and especially young people. She rendered complicated information comprehensible and interesting, using clear and simple examples.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Aldo and Margherita stuck together. He might get bored at her lectures, but he would always be there. They both shared a love for sports and motocycles.

Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Vittorio De Sica put himself on the line in order to save his cast and crew, and the film he was making. This final segment describes how he managed to complete La porta del cielo (The Gates of Heaven). The song we hear at the end of this documentary is very famous and was sung by Vittorio De Sica himself for the movie Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... in which he acted. Listen to the entire song here.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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.

Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The general hands De Sica a letter from Goebbels himself but since De Sica can't read German, it is translated for him ad alta voce (out loud). It's an invitation to Venice, which De Sica does not want to accept.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Although as an athlete, Margherita did make some compromises she felt she had to during the decades of Italian Fascism, she also took a stand against it, risking expulsion from school.

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