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In this episode we will explore the world of the Sun King as if it were a distant planet where everything was different: medicine, technology, education, hygiene and daily life. Even nature was different: Europe at that time was still full of forests where deer, wild boars and wolves roamed. Hunting was a typical pastime of the king, Louis XIV set out every day on horseback with his squires to go and capture some game. He was a good eater at the table, but devouring all that game eventually gave him a deadly gout, which at a certain point degenerated into gangrene that led to his death. Air Date : 18th-Dec-1998  Read More

Waterloo was Napoleon's last battle, marking his final disappearance from the scene and his exile on Saint Helena until his death. The Battle of Waterloo was one of the bloodiest events of the 19th century: it is estimated that the dead, missing and wounded were a total of 48,000, all of which took place in the space of a few hours, on a relatively small terrain and with a violence rarely seen. Air Date : 19th-Feb-1999  Read More

The episode celebrates the 2000 episodes of Quark and all the programs derived from it. Air Date : 4th-Jun-1999  Read More

In this episode we will retrace Marco Polo's journey, the journey he recounted in his famous book Il Milione. 15 thousand kilometers from Venice to Beijing, crossing deserts, steppes and very high mountains and back. We will understand what it meant to travel at that time in difficult territories, without roads, without the possibility of aid and resources, crossing much of the Middle East, crossing the Himalayas, to finally arrive in China. Air Date : 5th-Oct-1999  Read More

Our story begins in Vinci, not far from Florence, on April 15, 1452. It is the mid-1400s, a time of great intellectual fervor in Tuscany, Florence, Siena, Pisa, but also elsewhere in Italy. But Leonardo does not know all this, he lives in Vinci and attends the abacus school. Air Date : 28th-Dec-1999  Read More

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In this episode we will follow step by step a truly extraordinary story: that of Christopher Columbus. A man who had an idea that was considered crazy at the time and made it happen. That is, reaching the East by passing through the West, crossing an immense and unknown ocean. Air Date : 3rd-Mar-2000  Read More

Giuseppe Verdi was not only a composer, but a man with an extraordinary life, a life that we will tell you about in this episode. Air Date : 13th-Dec-2000  Read More

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On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, in 2001, Superquark dedicated a special episode of the program to Enrico Fermi, in two parts. Mixing excerpts from films and documentary narration, the program retraces Fermi's origins and his studies that took him, very young, to the Scuola Normale di Pisa. It talks about the fertile period of "I ragazzi di Via Panisperna" in Rome when together with Rasetti, Amaldi, Segré, Majorana, D'Agostino and Pontecorvo he worked on reactions produced by atomic nuclei by the action of slow neutrons. Explores the group's relations with the fascist regime and the mysterious disappearance of Majorana; shows some laboratory instruments used by Fermi in the 1930s; talks about his departure for the USA, the awarding of the Nobel Prize in 1938 and the work of building the atomic pile, with the first nuclear chain reaction on 2 December 1942. Air Date : 18th-Sep-2001  Read More

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Giuseppe Garibaldi, a name that immediately evokes 100 images, memories and sensations. We all met him for the first time in school books with his strange cap and poncho. Air Date : 9th-Dec-2003  Read More

In this episode, our journey continues alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi, this extraordinary character who, after fighting for the ideals of freedom and equality in South America, finally manages to return to his homeland after a long exile and puts his passion at the service of Italian unity. Air Date : 10th-Dec-2003  Read More

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This episode of the Speciali Superquark is dedicated to the most famous and celebrated of leaders: Napoleon Bonaparte. After the great enthusiasm and bloodbaths of the French Revolution, a Corsican general, Napoleon, appears first on the military scene and then on the scene of the great powerful people of the earth, whose action will have a profound impact on the history of modern Europe. Piero Angela retraces his story starting from the moment of the coup d'état, but above all following the events of the "Grande Armèe", Napoleon's great army, which for almost twenty years crossed the most diverse fronts: from Austria to Italy, from Prussia to Spain, from Egypt to Russia. There is no shortage of intrigues that surrounded him and his family, and his great loves. The images of the beautiful drama co-produced by Rai in 2002, directed by Yves Simoneau, bring the power of his story to life. Air Date : 28th-Dec-2005  Read More