Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
De Ponte is still intent on finding Caravaggio to arrest him. Fortunately, the artist has people who want to protect him and is taken by boat to Siracusa, where a friend takes him in.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele is painting and doesn't want to stop, even to eat, until he has finished. He is also having nightmares. The Marquise pays an unusual visit.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele arrives in Messina. Filide pays a visit to a Cardinal she knows, to try to negotiate a pardon for Michele.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele is still in Sicily and is feeling justifiably paranoid. A painting he had done in secret is on display in a small church. But there are some criticisms and he doesn't react passively.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The ship arrives at the mainland and Cardinal Gonzaga instructs his men to escort Michele to land in a dinghy. The Cardinal will follow with the travel documents and paintings. Michele is a bit suspicious, but has no choice.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele receives some apologies and some help to search for the boat with his canvases. The Marquise is trying to reach him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio is in a bad way, and the fishermen agree on how to handle him. The Marquise is desperately trying to reach Porto Ercole to meet him.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Learn 10 words having to do with the Easter season and springtime.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dario is a player of Ultimate frisbee. He talks about this hobby in the video. He's on the beach, where a tournament is taking place, and he teaches us the easy rules of this fun and exciting game.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Aline talks to us from the beach at Bibione, a town near Venice. She's playing in an ultimate Frisbee tournament, which she also helped organize.
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: 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: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The passion for vintage cars can become a real disease. Being the owner of a car and being a collector are two different things.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We see the underside of a Ferrari as an inspection is carried out. Carmine Sessa, a classic car expert, talks about the Spider model and the Daytona model, which was built in a limited quantity, almost exclusively for the American market. Fun "fact": Some say the yellow color was named Fly, standing for "Ferrari Light yellow." The color was suggested by Fiamma Breschi (a close friend of Enzo Ferrari's). Fiamma means "flame" but she didn't want the color to be Giallo Fiamma "flame yellow" (named after her) and suggested "fly."
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Every serious vintage car collector must have a Ferrari Daytona. Some of the characteristics of this car are described in this segment.
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