Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma had been dreaming and wakes up to a call from Don Mariano who wants to see her, urgently. But she has another emergency to deal with first.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma is still worried about her husband ending up in the hospital when, back at work, Diana has bad news for her. Imma remembers her appointment with Don Mariano, but that's not the worst of it.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma goes to the Foundation where Don Mariano had his office. She and the team look for the tablet and talk to the young man who helped out there. They also talk to the housekeeper Ilona, who says there were plenty of people out to get Don Mariano.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma goes to the hospital and can't help looking at Pietro's phone while he is sleeping. Back at the office, Diana is in tears because her husband wants a separation.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Imma is talking with Mottola to find any connections with Don Mariano's death. He is accusing the deceased of not having helped him, and at a certain point, she says: Ma si rende conto? (but do you have any idea?) For more on this expression see our lesson. Back home, Imma is irritable, but she can't talk to her daughter about the real reasons she is upset.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Comedian and actor Caterina Guzzanti is a guest at a middle school in Afragola, in the province of Naples, a school named after Rita Levi Montalcini. Guzzanti meets with the students from the theater class for a lesson on the imagination, which has a lot of importance in her work but was also very important to the great researcher from Turin, Montalcini.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini talks about when she won the Nobel Prize in 1986. Her niece, Piera, tells the story from her point of view, and Paola Tarassi, a research student of hers, tells about studying with her after she had already won the Nobel.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini felt that imagination was the "secret sauce" of her research. And this encouraged her to turn to young people, who have plenty of imagination. She didn't hesitate to teach kids of junior high school age, which came as a surprise to some people, since she was a winner of the Nobel prize.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini dedicated a great part of her life to young people, especially young researchers, and though she had no children of her own, she felt that all kinds of young people were like sons and daughters to her.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini talks about what, as a little girl, she wanted to be when she grew up. One of her main goals was to help women, especially ones from poor countries, become what they were meant to become.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As a child, Rita Levi Montalcini was shy and insecure. Her father wanted her to get married and have children, but she had other plans for her life. She also had a twin sister who was an artist.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini was a strong proponent of education and instruction as the means to gain freedom. She was also an example of it. This segment describes a visit to women in prison, and the obstacles Montalcini had to face, as a woman and as a Jew, during the Nazi-Fascist regime.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Because of the racial laws in Italy during the period of Fascism, many Jews left the country, including Rita Levi Montalcini. In Italy she wasn't allowed to work or publish papers, but somehow, she found a way to keep going.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The formal, ceremonious aspect of the Nobel Prize awards was not what Rita Levi-Montalcini was used to, but she used that recognition to her advantage. Winning the Nobel Prize wasn't necessarily the high point in her career.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rita Levi Montalcini doesn't feel like she made any sacrifices in her life, including not having a family. She had a clear vision of what she wanted out of life, and she followed it.
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