Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip in a dream has superhero powers, while his brother Supervip is powerless. However, it isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna shows the baby changing area that she's set up in her apartment. She talks about many baby care products, and the segment provides a great lesson in diminutives.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla arrives at school and finds a very angry looking dog.
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
Interrogating the wife of one's boss might be cause for some nervousness, but Manara seems to enjoy it. And Luca also has some news, which slips out very casually.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Events have awakened a true transformation on Paolo's part, but even with all his good intentions, he's running up against some brick walls regarding Natoli.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip is none too happy when he meets his namesake, a dog.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Veronica Pivetti plays a highschool teacher whose hobby is being a sleuth. The series starts with a "normal" morning, getting ready for school and work.
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
Natoli is processing the tragic news. There's a meeting at the factory to commemorate Aldo.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip, in this segment entitled Fatal Regressions, recalls a playground scene in which he misinterprets some baby talk.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manara makes an important and unexpected announcement to his colleagues, but gets interrupted by some disturbing news about the town psychic.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
"One Step Away from Me" was written by Fabio Ilacqua and arranged by Adriano Celentano and Celso Valli. Celentano and Mina sing about two lovers trapped between reason and emotion.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The segment shows us some interiors in Coppedè's dream-inspired complex.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Natoli starts listening to Paolo, but there is room for interpretation... Paolo hears some important news.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Psicovip dreams of aliens from a planet called Pallara, where they have a thing for shoes. You could call it a fetish.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The series on Umbria ends with amazing landscape shots of Castelluccio, including fields of poppies, cornflowers, and lentil flowers. Castelluccio's lentils are justly renowned.
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
Paolo finally gets to see the inside of the family business. It's tough for him to play at being the boss.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip is back on the couch, recounting an inadequacy dream to the shrink. He gets his portrait painted, the offer of a taste of a plastic banana, and an introduction to the shrink's brothers. All for €80.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Cascia and Visso are explored in this segment. The narrator makes the point that Umbria is the land of saints, naming: Saints Francis, Clare, Benedict, and Rita.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna describes her delivery, from the first contractions to that magic moment when nothing else matters.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Someone goes to school, someone goes to work, and someone goes to play "president."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Abbey of Saint Eutizio is featured in this segment. It was largely destroyed in the earthquake of October 31, 2016. Its reconstruction is in the planning stage.
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