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Italianpod101.Com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts 1 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Advanced Lessons 1-50 1-50 2 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Introduction This is Innovative Language Learning. Go to InnovativeLanguage.com/audiobooks to get the lesson notes for this course and sign up for your FREE lifetime account. The course consists of lessons centered on an audio blog that is completely in Italian. These audio blogs take you around Italy and introduce you to many different aspects of the country, including culture, history, folklore, arts, and more. These blogs will also teach you all about many different cities in Italy and what they are famous for. Along the way, you'll pick up sophisticated expressions and advanced grammar in this Audio Blog series presented entirely in Italian. The lesson starts with the Italian blog, which is all in Italian and at native speed. Finally, practice what you have learned with the review track Before starting the lessons, go to InnovativeLanguage.com/audiobooks to get the lesson notes for this course and sign up for your FREE lifetime account. 3 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Advanced Audio Blog S2 Roma #8 - A quick visit to the Vatican Informal Italian 2 Informal English 3 1 Vocabulary 4 Cultural Insight 4 4 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Informal Italian Una visita veloce al Vaticano Cominciamo col dire che il Vaticano non è in Italia, almeno formalmente. È invece uno stato sovrano, con la propria moneta e la propria forma di governo. Oggi il territorio dello stato Vaticano è molto limitato e consiste quasi esclusivamente della basilica di S. Pietro e gli edifici ad essa connessi. Fino alla fine del sec. XIX però comprendeva le regioni del Lazio, delle Marche e dell’Abruzzo, oltre a parte dell’Emilia Romagna, della Toscana e della Campania: tutta l’Italia centrale insomma. Stavolta anche Owin sembra interessata al mio racconto e mi chiede in che modo le terre dell’impero romano siano diventate proprietà dei papi. Le dico: È una storia molto lunga, troppo per la verità. In due parole diciamo che sul piano legale hanno creato un documento falso, la famosa donazione di Costantino. In pratica però il vescovo di Roma, perché questo era il Papa all’inizio, era diventato l’unico protettore, economicamente e militarmente, della popolazione, e quindi almeno all’inizio la Chiesa cominciò ad interessarsi degli affari pubblici per necessità più che per interesse. Ora siamo in via della Conciliazione, la strada monumentale che porta in Piazza S. Pietro. Owin guarda qua e là e si domanda quanto sia antica quella strada piena di marmi, colonne e sculture. Non più di 2 cinquant’anni le rispondo, fu il Duce a costruirla spazzando via il quartiere che c’era prima. Una volta dicono, si arrivava alla Basilica d’improvviso, stradina dopo stradina, e la maestà del Tempio dei cristiani appariva gigantesca tra le casette del popolo. Siamo arrivati nel colonnato, e le spiego la perfezione del progetto: nonostante il portico sia circolare, in qualsiasi parte ci si mette le colonne sembrano tutte in fila. Le faccio notare che per costruire S. Pietro fu utilizzato quasi tutto il marmo degli antichi monumenti romani, che avevano attraversato la storia praticamente intatti fino al sec XVI. LC: AB_S2L1_011509 © www.ItalianPod101.com - All Rights Reserved 2009-01-15 5 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Informal English A quick visit to the Vatican Let’s start by saying that the Vatican isn’t in Italy, not formally at least. It is instead a sovereign state with its own currency and its own form of government. Today the territory of the Vatican is very limited and consists solely of St. Peter’s Basilica and the other buildings physically connected to it, yet at the end of the 19th cent it was far more comprehensive, it included Lazio, Marche and Abruzzo, along with part of Emilia Romagna, Toscana and Campania; in other words, all of central Italy. This time Owin seems to be more interested in my story and asks how the lands that used to belong to the Roman Empire happened to become property of the Church. It’s a long story, too long actually. Trying to cut it short, let’s say that on a strictly legal level the Church produced a fake document, the famous Donation of Costantino. In reality, the bishop of Rome, as that’s who the Pope actually was, had become the only protector of the people, economically as well as militarily, thus you can see, from its very beginning, the Church was getting involved in public affairs, because of a real need rather than for its own interest. We are now in via della Conciliazione, the monumental street leading to Piazza S. Pietro 3 Square. Owin stares, looking here and there, wondering how old that road full of marbles, columns and sculptures can actually be. Not more than fifty years I answer, the Duce built it, blowing away the district that used to be there. Once, they say, you used to get to the Basilica abruptly, one narrow road after the other until finally the majesty of the Christians’ Temple appeared, looming gigantically above the little houses of the people. We’ve arrived under the colonnade and I explain to her the perfection of the project; notwithstanding its circularity you can place yourself at any point and the columns will always seem to form a long straight line. I point out that in order to build St. Peter’s it was necessary to use almost all the marble of the ancient roman monuments, which had, up until then, safely crossed through history to the 16th century. LC: AB_S2L1_011509 © www.ItalianPod101.com - All Rights Reserved 2009-01-15 6 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Vocabulary Italian English Class duce duce noun colonnato collonade noun Vocabulary Sample Sentences Il duce era Benito Mussolini. "The Duce was Benito Mussolini." Il colonnato è del sedicesimo secolo. "The collonade is from the sixteenth century." Cultural Insight 4 La Donazione di Costantino Flavio Valerlo Costantino visse tra il 280 ed il 337 d.C., fu il primo imperatore a riconoscere ai cristiani libertà di culto e con l'Editto di Milano (313) la dichiarò addirittura religione ufficiale dell'impero. Per salire al trono Costantino dovette affrontare una lunga e sanguinosa guerra civile, che si concluse a Roma con la battaglia di ponte Milvio, in cui sconfisse Massenzio, suo ultimo avversario. La leggenda vuole che prima della battaglia avesse sognato Cristo e che questo gli avrebbe annunciato di far dipingere la sua croce sulle proprie insegne con la famosa frase in hoc signo vinces (latino: in questo simbolo vincerai). Questa leggenda è riportata proprio nel documento della famosa Donazione di Costantino, oltre al racconto di come Papa Silvestro sarebbe riuscito a far convertire l'imperatore in punto di morte. La seconda parte dello stesso testo è il testamento dell'imperatore con cui questi avrebbe lasciato al vescovo di Roma ed alla Chiesa sovranità su tutta l'Italia ed il primato sulle altre diocesi. La Donazione è in realtà più vecchia di almeno cinquecento anni e lo si sospettava già intorno all'anno mille. La confutazione definitiva è comunque dell'anno 1440, ad opera di Lorenzo Valla (De falso credita et emendita Constanitni Donatione). I "mutandari" della Cappella Sistina LC: AB_S2L1_011509 © www.ItalianPod101.com - All Rights Reserved 2009-01-15 7 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Quando tra il 1536 ed il 1541 Michelangelo affrescò la volta e la parete di fondo della Cappella Sistina, dipinse i suoi personaggi nudi, uomini e donne, nella convinzione che ogni parte del corpo umano è opera di Dio e non ha quindi senso nasconderle, anche le più intime, per lo meno quando si tratta di ritrarre santi e personaggi mitologici. Purtroppo si era in piena Controriforma ed i valori morali avevano un'importanza sempre più politica, per questo motivo, pochissimo tempo dopo la conclusione dei lavori, una squadra di pittori fu incaricata da Papa Sisto V di coprire le oscene nudità di Michelangelo, letteralmente vestendo quei personaggi almeno nelle parti intime. Lo spirito pungente e sarcastico del popolo romano inventò subito per questo gruppo di artisti il termine mutandari, ovvero coloro che mettono le mutande. 5 LC: AB_S2L1_011509 © www.ItalianPod101.com - All Rights Reserved 2009-01-15 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) 8 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Audio Blog S2 Venezia #9 - Venice ghosts and legends part 2 Informal Italian 2 Informal English 3 2 Vocabulary 4 Cultural Insight 5 9 ItalianPod101.com Learn Italian with FREE Podcasts Informal Italian Fantasmi e leggende di Venezia –parte 2 Continuiamo a vedere insieme alcune delle più famose storie di fantasmi e leggende di Venezia Terza pillola Le pene d’amore – nella città considerata la più romantica del mondo – hanno dato origine a svariati miti e leggende sull’apparizione di spiriti e fantasmi. Ne sa qualcosa chi, di casa o di passaggio a Castello, si è imbattuto nello spettro della povera Tosca – una giovane aristocratica veneziana – la quale, ancora con l’abito nuziale addosso, erra per le calli alla ricerca del dito con l’anello di fidanzamento tagliatole dall’uomo che non desiderava vederla maritata. La leggenda vuole che solo ritrovandolo potrà finalmente celebrare il suo matrimonio. “Quando Dio vuole castigare un uomo gli mette in testa di maritarsi”. O forse è il contrario? Quarta pillola 2 L’oscurità. Al buio e vista dal mare Venezia è già di per sé tenebrosa, ma a conferma di ciò si narra che nel tratto di laguna di fronte all’Isola di San Michele, nelle notti in cui la foschia è più fitta, sia possibile scorgere una piccola bara galleggiante con quattro lumini accesi appoggiati sopra.
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