Paolo is feeling helpless and discouraged about everything, but Manuela won't give up as easily.

We visit the cemetery where the English poets are buried, and learn about the relationship between the Tiber River and the city of Rome.

Minivip gets real close to saving a circus lady but is hindered by trained circus fleas.

Camilla's normal family dinner with her husband and daughter gets interrupted by an unexpected guest.

Manuela and Paolo are trying to get ready for getting approval for adoption from Social Services. They get to know each other better in the process, and Natoli shows his true colors, too.

Rome's many bridges are the focus of this video, including the Ponte Rotto, which dates back to ancient Rome. Only part of the Ponte Rotto is still standing and this is why it is called rotto or broken. Rivers are masculine in Italian, and ancient Roman statues portray River Gods as recumbent elderly men with long beards.

Minivip tells his doctor of getting stuck in an elevator, a fear many of us share. It is surprising that Italy, about the size of Arizona, has as many elevators as the US.

The Abruzzo Region, sometimes known as the Abruzzi with an i in older publications, is the area of interest for this six-segment video. This segment concentrates on the Piccolomini Castle in Marsica.

At police headquarters things are nice and quiet. But not for long! The officers meet up with Camilla and Sammy at the apartment.

The tour draws to a close in Rome's rougher neighborhoods, those that were particularly fascinating to poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Yabla takes us to a shop specialized in beauty products. There's plenty of new vocabulary here!

What does it mean to be a European? Is the variety of languages in Europe an obstacle to actual unification? Umberto Eco explores these questions and offers some interesting insight.

Paolo is surrounded by challenges: Manuela's family, to start with, and then the difficult decisions to make regarding the future of the factory.

Camilla had a hard time of it after seeing what she saw the night before. And she had a hard time in class, too, with students who hadn't studied.

Highlights include a church straddling the Romanesque and Gothic in Celano, and Massa d'Albe (the Roman city of Alba Fucens), where there is an amphitheater excavated from rock. The word arena comes from the Latin word harena, or sand. Sand was used on arena floors to catch the blood lost during gladiator games and the like.