Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono is on a video call with Marina, his daughter, and her friend Chanel, when he gets a phone call from headquarters and goes to a new crime scene, to see what's what.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and DA Piras arrive at the scene of the crime and meet Don Michele. The next morning Lojacono goes with Di Nardo to talk to the kids who had been in the parish hall with the victim.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The young volunteers talk about how they met and what they were doing the night of the murder. Aragona and Romano come back to headquarters with a photo they found at the victim's home.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono surprises Laura at dinnertime. Di Nardo has dinner with Rosaria, who has an invitation for her. At the dinner table, Giorgia has something to discuss with Francesco.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A parishioner shows up at police headquarters with photos she thinks are compromising. Lojacono and Alex then go to question the volunteers as to whether the insinuations could carry any weight.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Di Nardo go to speak with Don Michele again, when Mass is over. The priest confirms that he and Angela cared for each other very much but that they didn't have a relationship. He is being rather defensive, but Lojacono gets him to agree to cooperate.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The alternative tourism video starts by showing some of Rome's iconic sites, but will focus on less well-known quarters, such as the Salario-Trieste neighborhood in north Rome.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rome's Coppedè Quarter is the focus of the segment. Its eclectic style is difficult to characterize, but the narrator talks of the liberty style, which stems from the Liberty department store in London. In English, we know this style by the French term, Art Nouveau.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The segment shows us some interiors in Coppedè's dream-inspired complex.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
More dreamy interiors of the Coppedè complex and an introduction to the Keats–Shelley House in Piazza di Spagna.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The segment touches on Byron and Shelley, but is mostly about Keats and his time in Rome. It also includes part of a beautiful love letter to Fanny Brawne. The narrator speaks of Keats living on the second floor. The Italian way of counting stories is to call the first floor, the ground floor, and the numbering starts above.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The narrator reads some moving passages from the letters of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet and near contemporary to Keats and Shelley, also lived in Piazza di Spagna.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We visit the cemetery where the English poets are buried, and learn about the relationship between the Tiber River and the city of Rome.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The tour draws to a close in Rome's rougher neighborhoods, those that were particularly fascinating to poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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