Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Palma and Lojacono have summoned Mauro Carullo to ask him a couple of questions. Later, the police are back at the Borrelli residence, to listen to the recording of the phone call again in hopes of someone recognizing the voice.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona go to talk with Dodo's grandfather, Mr. Borrelli, who proves to be somewhat arrogant. Alex tells his parents that she has found a place to rent for herself, but they don't take it well.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Pisanello returns home after being hospitalized but still can't stop thinking about Musella's death, which was filed as suicide. Alex, after the argument with her father, takes refuge at Rosaria's place.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Twenty-four hours after the first phone call, there is still no news about the kidnapped child. To avoid sitting idle, Giuseppe and Alex meet with Mrs. Parascandolo to learn more about the theft.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The kidnappers demanded a very high ransom and the police decided to summon all the child's close relatives to ensure no one takes independent action. The situation is definitely heating up.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Fingerprints left in the Parascandolo apartment have finally been identified. Di Nardo and Lojacono quickly go to pay a visit to Mrs. Parascandolo, who has some interesting things to say on the subject.
Difficulty:
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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