Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Perhaps not everyone knows that Margherita Hack as a girl was quite the athlete. Her sport was track and field. She also had a passion for cycling and rode her bike well into her seventies.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Although as an athlete, Margherita did make some compromises she felt she had to during the decades of Italian Fascism, she also took a stand against it, risking expulsion from school.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This segment recounts how Aldo De Rosa and Margherita met in a park in Florence as kids and later married. Aldo supported her in her scientific work throughout their marriage, which lasted over seventy years.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Aldo and Margherita stuck together. He might get bored at her lectures, but he would always be there. They both shared a love for sports and motocycles.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Margherita Hack's talents lay not only in her greatness as a scientist, but also in her remarkable ability to communicate with the general public, and especially young people. She rendered complicated information comprehensible and interesting, using clear and simple examples.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Margherita Hack was a scientist and communicator, but she also expressed her opinions about attualità (current events). Part of this segment features a panel discussion she held with author Andrea Camilleri, best known for his novels about Inspector Montalbano that became a popular TV series.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Margherita Hack spent some time in politics and was also an entrepreneur at times. But she had a lot of fun, too. On the panel with Camilleri, the author of the Montalbano stories, they all come out (in unison) with the famous introduction Montalbano sono (Montalbano, I am). Putting the verb at the end is typical of Sicily, where the story takes place. Otherwise, it would be Sono Montalbano (I'm Montalbano) or, on the phone, "This is Montalbano."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We discover that Margherita Hack was a devoted fan of the long-running TV series, Un posto al sole [a place in the sun]. She explains why. Francesca goes back to Trieste and meets up with Eda who talks about having lived in the same house with Margherita Hack.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, Margherita talks about her choice not to have children and also discusses her position regarding God. She can't prove he exists nor can she prove he doesn't.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Even though Aldo and Margherita were very different in many ways, they came together in their skepticism. Towards the end of her life, Margherita couldn't move around much, but her brain never stopped going.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Margherita left a legacy of progress, both scientific and social. Perhaps she is still looking down on us, since an asteroid was named after her: 8558 Hack.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This crime story is set in the city of Matera in the Basilicata region, where Immacolata (Imma) Tataranni is the deputy prosecutor. She's on vacation at the beach when she finds something odd in the water.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma tells her husband about the finger she saw, but he seems skeptical. She is none too happy about her daughter's bathing suit, and also gives the barman a hard time.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma goes back to the office, stopping to chat with the cleaning lady as she makes her way upstairs. She meets the new chief prosecutor.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Calogiuri and Imma go to the site, where they are making a movie, to see if there is anything to be learned. Calogiuri gets noticed by the director because of his good looks. Could he make it as actor?
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