Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
While delivering the mirror to their friend, Vincenzo wonders why the Leaning Tower of Pisa leans. They have a ways to go on foot and a while to wait at the door, so there is plenty of time for Andrea to explain.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Calogiuri shows up at Imma's office with a possible piece of evidence, meriting a trip to see Stacchio again. They head out together but there is some troubling news awaiting them there.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Italy has an important tradition of auto d'epoca (vintage cars) and auto da corsa (race cars) and RAI TV has dedicated a documentary series to this topic. This first segment is introduced by former racing driver René Arnoux, who competed in 12 Formula One seasons. You might notice his French accent. It also features Silvia Nicolis, daughter of the collector of vintage cars, Luciano Nicolis.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Francesca is anxious about Vincenzo's phone call from Iceland. He comes back from the phone call happy, but not everyone is as happy as he is.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma attends Stella's burial at the cemetery and is struck by the writing on a wreath. She introduces herself to the woman who placed it on the gravesite and tries to find out a little more about Stella's life. She is also drawn to the ossuary or wall burial site bearing the name, Centino Latronico. We recall him as the man Imma suspects might have been her real father.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
As the credits role in this final segment, we hear a song written and performed by Fabrizio De André (together with Massimo Bubola. Una storia sbagliata (a story all wrong) was commissioned for a 1980 TV show about Pasolini's death, called Dietro il processo (behind the trial). You can hear the entire song here, while here you'll find the complete lyrics in Italian.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
After exchanging memories of Michele, the friends take the road back to Pisa, singing a song with very appropriate lyrics; Morirò in un'incidente stradale (I'll die in a car accident). The group that originally recorded the song is I Gatti Mezzi whose songs are in Pisan dialect or vernacolo (vernacular). See the complete lyrics. Back home, there is a phone call for Vincenzo that seems important.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma talks to Stacchio again and finds a few more pieces to the puzzle. She also talks to the coroner to learn some details about Stella's death. She also has new information about a certain phone call.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pier Paolo Pasolini discusses the effects Fascism had on Italy. He talks about the city of Sabaudia, built by the fascist government on the reclaimed marshland of the ancient Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino) and how later, what took hold was the culture of consumerism.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
At the spot where the accident had occurred, the friends wonder how it could have happened since Michele was such a good, careful driver.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma goes to the land registry office in Ginosa to find out more about Palazzo De Nardis. She manages to obtain some information from the person in charge and goes to see Signora D'Avena.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Despite the late hour, Vincenzo suggests going to see their friend Michele before they all go off to different destinations.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma interviews De Nardis who tells a good story, not that Matarazzo and Imma are totally convinced, however. And then they go to the bar and find out a bit more about their suspect.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini explains the difficulty of framing a city through the lens, only for it to be ruined by modern buildings that seem to have nothing to do with the form of the city itself. He wants anonymous, simple poetry to be preserved just like the works of Dante and Petrarca.
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