Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Giuseppe is shaken by the case he is working on, concerning the child who disappeared at the museum. He has lost his appetite and confides in Letizia. At the police station, the team is looking at the security camera footage for some clues.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Dodo's mother and her new partner try to identify the hooded person the boy walked off with. The boy's father is also questioned.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
After asking Dodo's father some questions, Palma and Lojacono advise him to be cooperative for the sake of the investigation and the child. Meanwhile, there is some new information about the gardener.
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.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Il Commissioner Manara is an Italian TV series set in the Maremma (southern Tuscany), which centers on Luca Manara, an unorthodox and highly seductive, newly arrived police commissioner, played by Guido Caprino.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Manara arrives on the scene of the supposed suicide. He questions a witness, and talks to the victim's doctor, and to the medical examiner, who turns out to be an attractive woman who has no problem with shyness.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Manara meets his new boss and from the outset there's tension. We learn that Manara was transferred to his new post because of an affair between Manara and the wife of his former boss.
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