Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Normally, someone else writes your obituary when you die, but Ennio Morricone wrote his own! His attorney was authorized to read it aloud in public, and here it is.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ennio Morricone was best known for his unforgettable movie soundtracks. In fact his music was featured in over sixty prize-winning films.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
An agreement has been signed between Enel (Italia's leading electric company) and Piaggio (a leading motorized vehicle manufacturer) for the development of electric mass transportation and for studying innovative solutions for the safeguarding of the environment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tiziano Ferro starts off his "eco-tour" sponsored by the Italian electric company, Enel. He suggests small ways in which each of us can save on energy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tiziano Ferro talks about his relationship with pen and paper. Familiarize yourself with sonno and sogno, both of which have to do with the night.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Elisa covers Luciano Ligabue's 2014 song "A modo tuo" (In Your Own Way). Ligabue's song describes his concerns about his own daughter's growing up. Elisa's "A modo tuo" has been a huge hit.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Eleanora explains how tambourines are made and plays a few notes from the Pizzica and Tarantella dances. The Pizzica was used in the past for exorcising the possessed.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eleonora tells us about how she combines her love for animals, especially horses, with a path to a career.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eleonora introduces us to her two horses. She tells the story of how they came to be part of her life.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Horses are large animals, but they are delicate, too. Keeping them healthy and in good condition requires a series of essential measures of different kinds. Eleonora takes us through some of them.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Giuseppe Pitrè was an ethnologist who collected documents pertaining to Sicily and its culture and traditions. His work is the basis for this documentary, which unites live footage, drawings, and archival documents.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
We learn about Pitrè's life, and his relationship to the sea.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
In this segment, we see some swordfish harpoon fishing, and hear an old Sicilian legend about a boy named Nicola who could stay underwater for a very long time.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.
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