All the ingredients are ready, and Anna and Marika go to work, making the ricotta ball mixture. They share with us a common saying about prezzemolo (parsley).

Daniela discusses how the imperfect is used to describe actions in the past that are happening contemporaneously.

There's one contestant left, but the questions keep on coming.

The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.

How much is too much? Marika explains about quantity, and shares some common idioms about quantity and degree that can come in very handy.

Anna and Marika provide the list of necessary ingredients for this Calabrese specialty. This recipe calls for sheep's milk ricotta. When you go to buy ricotta in Italy, storekeepers will ask if you want cow, sheep, or goat ricotta. You can also specify a mix.

After the war came TV. It changed everything, and provided a new way to unify the Italian language and teach people reading and writing.

Daniela concentrates on the modal verbs essere [to be] and avere [to have] in the imperfect tense.

We're down to two contestants: Agnese and Francescopaolo. Carlo's seven questions are pretty tough and involve international material.

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.”

Erica and Martina talk about their friendship, which started in the first year of high school and continues today.

It's time to talk about Calabria, a southern region with both sea and mountains. Let's hope Anna did some studying.

Pythagoras, after leaving Croton, brought his school of philosophy to Metapontum. This key city of Magna Graecia [Greater Greece] brings the series on Basilicata to a close.

Here we are in the final phase of this delicious pasta recipe from Sardinia. This is the fun part, for sure.

Daniela discusses the imperfect tense for verbs ending in -are, -ere, and -ire.