Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika provides the terminology you'll need if you shop online using an Italian website.
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: Intermediate
Italy
The case has been solved, one gets the feeling that if the murderer had been Varricchio, a common ex-convict, instead of a promising biologist, son of a prominent professor, the outcome would have been more palatable to the city and to the press.
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: Intermediate
Italy
Mattioli's wife talks to Berardi and tells him what she knows so that they can find the body of the nurse. At school, Camilla's class discusses the book "L'Esclusa" by Pirandello. The usual translation of the title is "The Outcast," but literally, it is "the excluded woman."
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
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: Intermediate
Italy
We visit two wineries, Rocca di Frassinello in the Maremma, near Grosseto in the southern part of Tuscany, and the famous Antinori winery in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone.
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: Intermediate
Italy
It's time for an official introduction to Camilla's mother's fiance. Everyone is a bit tense. Camilla then gets a phone call that changes the course of the evening.
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
There are a great many unique automobiles in the collection. In the early twentieth century, there was no metallic paint, so other solutions were found to produce a special finish, such as Lunar Chrome, a technique using mother of pearl and fish scales.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In 1949 Giulio Castelli had a great idea: to bring into Italian homes objects that were useful, but also beautifully designed. The Kartell brand came onto the market.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma gets some information from her "helpful" colleague and goes to Eustacchio's school to find out more. Viewers might recognize his teacher.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla and Renzo go down to the morgue to identify the dead body. They take with them the earring Renzo found in the stairwell near Mattioli's office. Back home in bed, they discuss some peculiarities regarding the earrings and the corpse.
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