Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This beautiful ballad was inspired by Raimondo Lanza di Trabia, an aristocrat known for his electrifying personality and for his romantic relationships (Rita Hayworth and Susanna Agnelli among them). At the age of thirty-nine, he threw himself from a hotel window in Rome.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna takes us down to one of the most popular and busiest parts of the city. Many areas are primarily zone pedonali (pedestrian areas) but you still have to be very careful.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As usual, the ladies celebrate their success at the restaurant and the police chief shows up, too. Everybody is happy except for Lorenzo.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dante has gone too far this time, and Eva lashes out at him about Lorenzo's motor scooter. Words are said, and only Lola barging in with an emergency keeps it from getting out of hand. Meanwhile, Samantha is about to give up on her dream.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Today Arianna takes us back to Florence. This time we go to a high point on the southern side of the Arno river where we get a view of the whole city in all its splendor.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo has to write down a word that links the five guillotine words together. Francescopaolo and his sister have different ideas about the word.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The four ladies go and pay a visit to Ludwig to teach him a lesson. Eva and her son each discover something the other was trying to hide. There's plenty of new vocabulary in this episode, as well as the Italian version of the expression, "Who lives by the sword dies by the sword."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna takes us down to a beach near Pisa, and explains a bit about how beaches work in many parts of Italy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo is at the guillotine stage of the game. This means that for every wrong answer that he gives, his winnings are halved.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As the girls are approaching the medium's place for the hit, they witness a scene between him and his girlfriend.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna has a meeting with her boss, Luca, to talk about the increase in printing costs and Marika's role in the issue.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carlo has a fun anecdote about Dante, the poet's love of eggs, and his prodigious memory. The winner is anointed and both contestants, Francescopaolo and Matteo, have a moment in the limelight.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The ladies are ready, but their respective cellphones keep ringing for one reason or another.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
This beautiful church is worth a stop on the way from Pisa to the seaside. Arianna shares her discovery of it. The ceramic bowls that decorate the church are technically known as “bacini ceramici” in Italian, which could be translated as “ceramic basins.” Art historians who write in English, however, also use the term “bacini” for these tin-glazed works.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo and Matteo have reached the part of the game known as the “duel.” They go head-to-head on an array of topics, including a cartoon series and Dante's favorite thing to eat.
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