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Anna e Marika - Hostaria Antica Roma - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

Find out what's so special about the restaurant where Anna and Marika are about to have lunch.

Anna e Marika - Hostaria Antica Roma - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

What did people eat in Ancient Rome? Paolo, the owner of the restaurant, tells us about the history of the place and talks about the most popular dishes on the menu based on actual recipes from Roman times.

Antonio - e l'Isola di Dino View Series

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Italy Lucano

Antonio tells us about the two islands off Calabria. The Isola di Dino is the larger of the two and he tells us the legend of how the island was named. Isola della Cirella is the other island.

Claudio Capotondi - Scultore - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

Claudio Capotondi is a sculptor who lives and works in Pietrasanta, a Tuscan town famous for its marble and marble sculptors. He talks about an upcoming exhibition.

Claudio Capotondi - Scultore - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

Claudio Capotondi, sculptor, takes us into his "thinking room" and talks about the process of taking a block of marble and turning it into a work of art.

Claudio Capotondi - Scultore - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

The artist takes to the fascinating world of the marble quarries where he chooses the blocks of marble which he will transform into works of art.

Claudio Capotondi - Scultore - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

Claudio Capotondo talks about the tools and techniques that enable him to transform a block of marble or porphyry (a kind of igneous rock) into a work of art.

Claudio Capotondi - Scultore - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

"Innercore" is the title, inspired by an article in the New York Times, of Claudio Capotondi's masterpiece. He talks about the significance of the sculpture, and about the special kind of stone he used to make it.

Claudio Capotondi - Scultore - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

Claudio Capotondi discusses his marble and travertine sculpture entitled PortaRoma, created in 2000.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

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.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

We learn about Pitrè's life, and his relationship to the sea.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

In this segment, we see some swordfish harpoon fishing, and hear an old Sicilian legend about a boy named Nicola who could stay underwater for a very long time.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

Pitrè's mission was to conserve and safeguard the traditions of his people, the Sicilians, and to keep the roots alive. Looking at religious traditions is one important way to do this.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), recognized by her crown of roses, is Palermo's patron saint. The video shows the July 14 parade in honor of the saint, and a young man who credits his cure from a grave illness to Saint Rosalia.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

A woman performs a traditional Sicilian ritual involving the sticking of pins into an onion, accompanied by prayers, in order to bring back the boyfriend of her suppliant.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè loved attending performances of chivalric folk plays in Palermo. This segment follows a marionette player at Palermo's Opera dei Pupi, the same theater where Pitrè went to see folk epics.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

Palermo faces the sea and has a very long history of immigration. The narrator interviews a young woman whose great grandfather came to Sicily from Sudan. She is involved in educating immigrants from Africa and Asia. Pitrè was also highly involved in education.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

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Italy Sicilian

A Palermo doctor is interviewed about his practice and the African and Southeast Asian immigrant patients that he treats.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

A Palermo doctor discusses the Integration of immigrants in Sicily and highlights the successes in healthcare. Medical assistance is provided for all immigrants, whether lawful or not.

Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

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Italy

The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.

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