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
Detective Lojacono is transferred to a police station that is considered to be the worst of the worst. Judging from his first encounter there, it seems he has his work cut out for him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Detective Lojacono meets his team and learns why they talk about the "bastards." He also learns what the future holds for the police station.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Special agent Aragona read the files on all his colleagues and relates his findings to Lojacono. And we find out what Lojacono did, too. We also discover where he has his meals.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
At the police station, Lojacono takes a phone call about a homicide. The team has been instructed expressly not to take on anything other than ordinary business. This is decidedly not ordinary business, but Lojacono is no ordinary policeman, apparently.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono has a careful look at the corpse and the surrounding area and draws some conclusions. His superior shows up and naturally wants to put Lojacono in his place, sending him right back to the station house, with the district attorney looking on.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Palma is quite angry with Lojacono for disobeying his express orders not to handle any homicides. Meanwhile, a call comes in from a peculiar old lady and two agents go to check out her story.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Di Nardo and Romano decide to check out the apartment across the street, without much hope of success. That evening, there is news on TV about the murder and both Lojacono and the district attorney tune in from their respective apartments.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The DA has asked Lojacono to meet her for coffee. They joust a bit, but the DA has seniority and gets some answers from him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The "burglary gone wrong" is in the news and is not reflecting well on the city of Naples. The commissioner has summoned Palma and Lojacono to talk about this and makes a surprising decision.
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