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I REMEMBER

The puffballs!

“When the puffballs come, then winter is almost gone.”

“When the puffballs soar, then winter is no more.”

I've got the best one!

- Ciccio, let's go to the seashore. - Look at this one!

In our town, the puffballs arrive hand in hand with spring.

These are the sort of puffballs that drift around,

soaring over the cemetery, where all rest in peace,

soaring over the beachfront and the Germans, newly arrived,

who don't feel the cold.

Drifting, drifting...

swirling...

swirling... swirling...

Drifting, drifting, drifting!

I'm the last of fourteen children.

By then my father had had enough, so he called me Definitivo.

If he'd had enough sooner, there'd have been one less chatterer.

Good evening.

See you in the square.

I've come for my sister. Am I too early?

Your sister's here.

Fiorella, I'm all done. Come in.

Ibetter calm you down, you horny beast. What a body!

The bonfire's bigger this year than last.

You going to the bonfire tonight? What are you playing?

A brand-new tune I wrote.

Listen to this.

Now, Dad, we'll watch them light the bonfire, then off to bed.

The doctor says you must get to bed early.

The doctor's an asshole. I'll go to bed when I want.

Then you'll end up in the hospital, and this time I'll leave you there.

Blackheads! Numskulls!

Scram! That's my spot!

Creeps!

- Let me through! - Listen to this one.

One father can take care of 100 kids,

but 100 kids can't take care of one father. That's the gospel truth.

- I want to set off a firecracker. - Stay here!

Hey, Giudizio, catch!

I can, I command, I want! Long live Giudizio!

Volpina, have you made love today?

How many men did you service?

I bet you even dip a cock in your morning coffee.

Here she is!

You're the greatest, Gradisca. Greta Garbo's got nothing on you!

Let's go over there.

Ronald Colman, we're over here!

Giudizio, take this chair too.

Burn this one too. Put it on top.

Set the old witch in it.

I'll stuff that chair down your throat! Take it back home!

The old witch!

The old witch is here!

Let me marry her before you burn her!

What are you looking at?

I wasn't looking, I swear.

Lay off!

Don't look. You'll get too excited.

Bring the firecrackers!

Light the bonfire and burn the old witch!

“Burn away, O witch so old. Burn the winter and the cold.”

Here comes spring!

- I don't have a match. - But your beloved has, my dear.

Long live the old witch!

Long live Giudizio!

I can, I command, I want!

Where's the ladder?

You want it? Take it!

Take it!

Hurry! I'm burning up!

In America I saw bonfires 300 feet high.

- When were you ever in America? - My parents are American.

I'll break your neck!

You should hear what my father can do with his ass!

Hurray for spring!

- It gives me a funny feeling. - Yeah, me too.

But winter's dying and spring is on its way.

I feel it all over me already!

Our respects, milord. Our respects, ma'am.

Our respects to you, little countess.

Drink a little. It'll do you good.

Look, even your aunt's drinking.

Good old Lallo! No one would know you're 60.

Look at that. Your brother really is an asshole.

He's just a kid.

Now watch the Malaysian tiger leap!

Watch it!

You'll catch it when we get home!

- The heel came off. - Then he'll have to do without one!

Where's that other useless ass gone?

Ciccio, throw the big bang on the fire!

What are you up to? Off to bed with you!

I'll put you in boarding school!

It's Scureza di Corpolb, “The Fart.” Go to it, Scureza!

Bravo, Scureza!

The origins of this town are lost in the mists of time.

In the municipal museum, there are stone implements...

- All the best. - My respects.

That date to prehistoric times.

I myself have found some graffiti of great antiquity

in caves on Count Lovignano's estate.

Be that as it may, the first date we know for certain is 268 BC,

when this became a Roman colony and the start of the Emilian Way.

That, too, is characteristic of the irreverent nature of these people,

who bear Roman and Celtic blood in their veins.

Theirs is an exuberant, generous, tenacious nature.

The divine Dante, Pascoli, D'Annunzio

and many others have lauded this land,

and innumerable are its sons who have contributed greatly

to art, science, religion and politics.

Who is that?

You think you're funny,

but you're too cowardly to show your face.

Show yourself.

Come out here and I'll teach you a thing or two!

- Mr. Lawyer. - Yeah, yeah.

Gentlemen!

What's all this?

- Shall we take our places? - If you insist, headmaster.

But I never come out well in pictures.

You boys in the back, get up on the bench.

- What is it now, De Santis? - It wasn't me, sir!

Aldina.

Look - it looks like you.

What's going on?

Gigliozzi!

Take your seat.

Put it down her back.

Hold it like that, please.

What is this?

A stone.

- Yes, but what is it? - Lknow.

It's for a slingshot. An elephant's testicle?

I'll tell you. It's a pendulum.

You've certainly all seen a grandfather clock.

And how does it go?

Where did Tiberius retire to upon giving up command of the empire?

Capri.

- When was Agrippina killed? - 69 AD.

Why did you give me a zero? Wasn't it 69?

It was 59 AD.

Are you sure?

What do you mean, am I sure? It was 59 AD!

Damn it! I knew it!

You'll drive me crazy! Get back to your seat!

Why couldn't it have been 69?

There will come a day

when a renewed Italy

will take to the field of battle on her own behalf

and not to defend her soil for others, with their weapons.

Being spirit, the Universal becomes incarnate in the state

and cannot but enter into the true nature of the church.

But this reconciliation between church and state came about through a deity

who brought order to members of church and state,

demanding iron discipline and the right to intervene

in every aspect of individual life.

He is God's chosen son

because he has the same power as the Father.

Then there is the Holy Spirit, to be placed on the same level

as the Father and the Son. Is that clear?

That is why God is one and also a trinity.

Today we'll speak of the great Giotto.

Whose balls exploded like this!

Do you know, boys and girls,

why Giotto is so important in Italian painting?

I'll tell you: Because he invented perspective.

Per-spec-tive!

Teacher, may I leave the room? Bobo let a real stinker!

What's that?

You're crazy.

It's not true. I never fart.

- You do too. - I do not.

Alboino...

signed the peace.

Gigliozzi, out!

This one isn't difficult. Solve it.

Why did you stop? You were doing fine.

What were you trying to do?

- Give me a clue. - Pass it here.

Just think a moment.

X9 plus the square root of K3.

It's obvious!

Move over. What have you done here?

We'll go through it together. What's this here?

What's this here, I said. You must know how to read.

- But I - - Keep quiet!

X9 plus the square root of K3...

There's your answer.

X1 = 140.

X2 = 3/5ths of the total, less the difference.

Is that clear?

What have you done?

Are you crazy?

Janitor!

- Greek is so beautiful, isn't it? - You betcha.

It's so musical.

Emarpszamen. Repeat after me.

Quiet.