WEBVTT 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:06.160 You join us at a very exciting moment. 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:07.640 We're about to cut the cheese. 00:00:07.640 --> 00:00:09.400 So... 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:10.520 ♪ ♪ 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:13.640 Benvenuto e benvenuta, 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:15.800 it's the Italian Renaissance. 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:17.080 Gie her a Haggis! 00:00:17.080 --> 00:00:19.240 This time, I drive at pace… 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:21.760 Bloody good. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:23.400 …stuff my face… 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:25.320 I can see why it hasn't caught on. 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:27.720 …and stare off into space. 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:33.080 ♪ ♪ 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:45.720 Ah, buon giorno ai miei spettatori e spettatrici. 00:00:45.720 --> 00:00:48.000 We are now in Tuscany, 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.760 which is wonderful, with its incredible landscape, 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:52.920 its ace selection of trees, 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.320 its 11th-century castle and so on. 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:58.200 And if you're not from agreeable, middle-class England, 00:00:58.200 --> 00:00:59.560 you should know that this 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:02.720 is where agreeable middle-class English people come 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:05.440 to take a villa for the summer. 00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:07.280 ♪ ♪ 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.360 But we're not going to do that. 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:11.240 We're going to look at… 00:01:11.240 --> 00:01:12.720 a map. 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:15.360 Since I've not mentioned the boot yet, 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:18.360 Tuscany is situated right at the top at the front, 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:19.680 where you'd do your laces up. 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.400 As you can see, 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:23.720 this is a landscape of color, 00:01:23.720 --> 00:01:26.360 one whose famous hills astonished the senses 00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:29.360 of England's visiting romantic poets. 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:32.200 Here, too, are Shakespeare's sad cypresses, 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.200 ancient oaks, vast beech trees, 00:01:35.240 --> 00:01:38.840 and a small, gray Fiat Panda. 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.080 I'm off to play a game. 00:01:41.080 --> 00:01:44.840 It's called pallone col bracciale. 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:46.840 And it's very old. 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:49.640 It's one of those things that generally would be dismissed 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.160 as "traditional," i.e., nobody's really interested. 00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:53.360 But that's not quite true, 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.960 because about five Tuscan villages still play it, 00:01:56.960 --> 00:01:58.360 very competitively. 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.200 The arena for today's game, 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.440 which I've since been told is pronounced "bratch-iale," 00:02:05.440 --> 00:02:07.880 is the town of Monte San Savino, 00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:11.520 a center of social, political and cultural importance... 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.040 if you'd lived here in the Middle Ages. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:22.920 We are in the domain of the original Medici family, 00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:25.400 which was roughly divided into four quarters. 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:27.680 Each quarter is represented by a town-- 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.040 San Savino, in this case-- 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:31.760 and those towns played each other in a variety of games. 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:33.880 Buon giorno. 00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:36.720 Um, the most popular of which was bracciale, 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:37.880 which is what we're going to play today. 00:02:37.880 --> 00:02:40.280 And I don't really know how you play it. 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:42.960 I know that there's no racket. It hasn't been invented yet. 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.280 You play with a sort of wooden sleeve, 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:48.040 and you use that to hit the ball, a bit like volleyball. 00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:49.880 The ball is a big rubber thing, 00:02:49.880 --> 00:02:52.480 and you have to play it against a high wall. 00:02:52.480 --> 00:02:55.080 It's a sort of cross between squash and tennis. 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:59.880 So you do need a very old town with a large medieval wall in it. 00:02:59.880 --> 00:03:02.000 Otherwise you can't play. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.040 Oh, look at that. 00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:06.560 "The presenter of Top Gear, The Grand Tour 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.480 and Our Man in Japan is arriving 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:11.880 for filming of his new show. 00:03:11.880 --> 00:03:14.840 With James May, who will end up in the cemetery 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.840 after a game of pallone col bracciale. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.760 Then we will set fire to him." 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:21.040 Hmm. 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.400 Ancient medieval bylaws state 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.400 that before anyone can be cremated here, 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.400 they have to meet a well-dressed local dignitary. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:31.800 Hello. 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.360 - Buon giorno. - Buon giorno. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:34.560 Can I just ask where you got that jacket, by the way? 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:36.360 'Cause that's tremendous. 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:38.080 - I think in Rome. - Excellent, right. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.920 I don't know anything about this game. 00:03:40.920 --> 00:03:43.800 This is an old Renaissance game. 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:45.880 It's played with a special handle. 00:03:45.880 --> 00:03:47.400 So that is the racket. 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:48.720 Made of, uh, chestnut. 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:51.040 - That way, is it? - It's rather painful to hold. 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:55.280 It's a rough and tough game of, uh, Renaissance time, 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:57.000 - so be ready for it. - Okay. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.240 - Does anybody turn out to watch it? - Yes. 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:01.480 He's not wrong. 00:04:01.480 --> 00:04:04.600 Now, you wouldn't see this down your local football league. 00:04:04.600 --> 00:04:06.880 The whole town is out, 00:04:06.880 --> 00:04:08.600 including Oz Clarke. 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:10.360 And when it comes to playing medieval dress-up, 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.880 standards are high and low 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:16.240 and twizzled around a bit. 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:20.840 I quite like the shirt. 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:23.920 I've asked if I can keep it, and they've said yes. 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.040 Note my medieval trainers. 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:35.080 While the trumpets herald my descent of the town steps 00:04:35.080 --> 00:04:38.080 in some half-trousers made from old office blinds, 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:40.280 I have but one concern... 00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:43.520 - My trousers are an elevator. 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:45.960 That's normal? 00:04:48.280 --> 00:04:50.080 And so, the game begins. 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:51.640 And, like with all sport... 00:04:51.640 --> 00:04:53.160 That's me. 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:54.400 - No, it isn't. - ...I'm not very good. 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.760 The rules of bracciale are pretty simple, really... 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:06.080 ...you thunk the ball across the court with your giant wooden bangle. 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:08.240 Off the wall. Beautiful. 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.520 If it goes outside the lines, it's out. 00:05:10.520 --> 00:05:12.040 Oh, bollocks. 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:14.680 - And the best team wins... 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.800 ...which, at this stage, is unlikely to be mine. 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.960 Can somebody attende i pantaloni? 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:25.040 However, after Director Tom has fiddled around with me a bit... 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:26.760 - How's that? - Much better. 00:05:26.760 --> 00:05:29.200 ...my performance improves. 00:05:29.200 --> 00:05:30.720 - Yeah! 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:37.560 Ai ai bravo! 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.120 Yes! 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.360 The crowd seems mildly impressed, 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.760 or possibly relieved that my trousers are still up. 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:45.440 Apparently, the locals have opened a book 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:48.520 on whether or not I can move this arm tomorrow. 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:51.680 It hurts like hell in your elbow, when you hit it, and up here. 00:05:52.880 --> 00:05:54.240 Remember that scene in Top Gun, 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.720 when Tom Cruise is playing volleyball on the beach 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:58.280 in * slow motion? 00:05:58.280 --> 00:06:00.280 ♪ ♪ 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:03.160 Well, this is nothing like that, 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:05.400 but look at that shirt. 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:12.320 It's game over. 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:13.720 And to be honest, viewers, 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.520 I literally have no idea how it went. 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:18.280 Five game for the... for your team. 00:06:18.280 --> 00:06:20.200 Four game, the other team. 00:06:20.200 --> 00:06:22.560 - So we won? - Yes. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:25.880 - Yes! 00:06:25.880 --> 00:06:28.160 Oh, grazie. Grazie. 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.440 - Yes! 00:06:30.440 --> 00:06:33.280 Beer! Beer! 00:06:33.320 --> 00:06:37.520 Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:41.360 Sadly, after the game, my team had other things to do, 00:06:41.400 --> 00:06:43.280 like put the losers in the stocks 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:45.200 and excommunicate whoever wrote that tune. 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:50.200 ♪ ♪ 00:06:52.320 --> 00:06:54.480 Now, as I wend my way northwest, 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.800 it's time for double history. 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.080 Fortunately for the rest of the world, 00:07:03.080 --> 00:07:04.720 Tuscany has given us more 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:06.920 than just stupid trousers and wooden pineapples. 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:11.800 This is Florence, Firenze. 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.200 We are right in the underpants of the Italian Renaissance, 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:19.960 so what I thought we'd do today is art class. 00:07:23.880 --> 00:07:26.480 Many things that we take for granted today 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.280 owe their existence to the Italian Renaissance. 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:32.640 Paperback books, for example, the parachute 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:34.560 and the 33-barreled organ. 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.840 Also, something that stopped drawing being wrong. 00:07:37.840 --> 00:07:39.960 I'm in my art scarf. 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:43.360 All I need now is an erudite Englishman with a beard called Toby, 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.440 who's contractually not allowed to speak for the next 30 seconds. 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:49.480 We're here to talk about perspective, 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.040 uh, which is a skill that emerged in the Renaissance in Italy, 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:54.520 specifically in Florence, 00:07:54.520 --> 00:07:58.240 because it was here that Brunelleschi first codified it, 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:02.960 and it's all to do with the illusion of depth on a plane 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:04.520 which is essentially flat. 00:08:04.520 --> 00:08:08.680 Firstly, some pre-Renaissance work without perspective. 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:10.400 Oh. Yes, that's wonky. 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:14.160 We are quite literally looking down on one part. 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.560 On the other hand, we're looking up at the other part, 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.560 - the dome itself. - It's basically wrong. 00:08:19.640 --> 00:08:21.440 Then, in the 15th century, 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:23.400 some little-known artists adopted 00:08:23.400 --> 00:08:25.520 what is called "the vanishing point." 00:08:25.520 --> 00:08:28.200 So, James, this is by Leonardo da Vinci. 00:08:28.200 --> 00:08:31.280 And essentially what we're looking at is a constructed space 00:08:31.280 --> 00:08:33.840 using one-point perspective. 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.360 So any of these diagonal lines we can find, 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.640 follow them, whether it be the stairs, the lines of the floor... 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:42.600 they all will ultimately converge 00:08:42.640 --> 00:08:44.920 - on this one, single point. - Yes. 00:08:44.920 --> 00:08:47.200 It's there, is it? This is all fascinating. 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:51.600 But th-there is the rather intimidating presence of some easels here, 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.960 with blank paper and an extremely famous view, 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:56.520 which is the Ponte Vecchio, 00:08:56.520 --> 00:08:58.640 possibly the most famous bridge in the world. 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:00.760 - And we're going to draw it. - Yes, we are. 00:09:00.760 --> 00:09:02.400 I have to tell you that I can't draw. 00:09:02.400 --> 00:09:04.280 What I think we should do to begin with, James, 00:09:04.280 --> 00:09:07.160 is establish our horizon line 00:09:07.160 --> 00:09:09.920 by holding your pencil out horizontally 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:12.520 about exactly as high as your eyes. 00:09:12.520 --> 00:09:16.720 My-my eyes seem to be almost exactly on line with the foot level of the bridge. 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.720 Okay. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.720 A light line. There you go. 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.120 I have begun my artwork. 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.640 I should probably should ask the string quartet in the cupboard 00:09:25.640 --> 00:09:28.160 to play something arty about now. 00:09:28.160 --> 00:09:29.760 ♪ ♪ 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:32.920 - That looks beautifully straight. - Right. 00:09:32.920 --> 00:09:36.760 Now, the next thing we're gonna do is establish our vanishing point. 00:09:36.760 --> 00:09:41.840 Holding my ruler to line up with certain architectural points 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:45.520 I wonder if the people in the farmacia know 00:09:45.520 --> 00:09:47.520 - that they are a vanishing point. 00:09:47.520 --> 00:09:50.080 They-they could disappear at any second. 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.920 The rubber's getting a lot of use. 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:53.760 - More use than the pencil. 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:56.240 And while I draw, 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.240 the bridge enthusiasts among you will correctly know 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.360 that the Ponte Vecchio, completed in 1345 00:10:01.400 --> 00:10:03.920 by one Taddeo Gaddi, 00:10:03.920 --> 00:10:09.200 is specifically a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmented arch bridge. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:10.880 Something significant has happened. 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:13.080 I have an arch, and it looks roughly right. 00:10:13.800 --> 00:10:17.640 And now for my pièce de Renaissance: some lines. 00:10:18.800 --> 00:10:21.200 Looks really good. 00:10:23.280 --> 00:10:25.880 I think, structurally and architecturally, it makes sense. 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:29.080 If you came out of the 11th century 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:30.720 and arrived here today, 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.920 that would still be quite marvelous, 00:10:32.920 --> 00:10:36.880 because it gives the impression of everything receding into the distance. 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:38.640 So that would've amazed you. 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:41.760 It doesn't amaze you, but it would have amazed you 00:10:41.760 --> 00:10:43.680 if you'd been here, then. 00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:45.720 ♪ ♪ 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:47.840 Now I can draw art. 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:52.320 But to graduate to full Renaissance man, I must become art. 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.640 Another pillar of the Renaissance, aside from perspective, 00:10:55.640 --> 00:10:57.680 is, of course, life drawing, 00:10:57.680 --> 00:11:02.480 the refinement of our ideas about what the human body should look like. 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:04.360 Now, this is a bit more difficult for me, 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:07.960 because I can't hide behind my basic understanding of triangles. 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:12.640 So what I thought I'd do is arrange for some other artists 00:11:12.640 --> 00:11:16.920 to do the art whilst I simply sit. 00:11:16.920 --> 00:11:21.080 So now I'm going to go in here and take all my clothes off. 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:24.360 ♪ ♪ 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.800 This school is internationally renowned for its classical art classes. 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.920 Now, be warned, life drawing is rather uninhibited. 00:11:32.920 --> 00:11:36.680 And, as promised, as soon as I arrived, I did take my clothes off. 00:11:36.680 --> 00:11:39.520 But then they made me put some back on. 00:11:39.520 --> 00:11:41.400 Something they found in a really old wardrobe. 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.800 So, today, I'm posing-- or sitting, I should say-- 00:11:49.800 --> 00:11:52.040 as one of the Medici, and I'm being painted 00:11:52.040 --> 00:11:55.320 exactly as one of the Medici may have been, in oils, 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:57.480 naturally lit from above. 00:11:57.480 --> 00:11:59.560 And the only difference between this 00:11:59.560 --> 00:12:02.080 and what might have happened many, many hundreds of years ago 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.080 is that I'm going to be on my mobile telephone learning Italian. 00:12:06.520 --> 00:12:09.600 All that's missing is another bearded English scholar. 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.360 Okay, so, James, today we're gonna set you up in a particular pose. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.160 - Have I got to sit very still? - You do have to sit very still. 00:12:16.160 --> 00:12:19.120 I am a natural twitcher and fidgeter. 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:21.160 Well, we'll try and give you the pole, then. See how you do with that. 00:12:21.160 --> 00:12:22.800 Try that. 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:24.520 That only gives me one hand to play with my phone. 00:12:24.520 --> 00:12:25.880 Do you need two hands to play with your phone? 00:12:25.880 --> 00:12:28.480 - I'm not a teenager. Yes. 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.280 And, for the second time today, art begins. 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:37.600 Just practicing some useful Italian phrases. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.400 Does my head look big in this? 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.520 Seems to have a normally proportioned head. 00:12:43.520 --> 00:12:45.080 It's not too big. 00:12:48.520 --> 00:12:51.440 Do you like my hat? 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.720 Yeah, uh... 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:55.920 I guess I'm surprised it fits. 00:12:57.520 --> 00:13:01.120 Where should I go tonight? 00:13:01.160 --> 00:13:04.120 Well, he's dressed as a Medici. I'm sure that there is, like, a... 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.120 torture dungeon someplace. 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.760 A little punishment. 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:14.520 Need to scratch my nose. Is that permissible? 00:13:14.520 --> 00:13:17.120 I'm not sure what sort of pillock sits about all day 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.360 holding a long pole, but there we go. 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:21.680 I'm gonna start twitching in a minute, I can feel it. 00:13:21.680 --> 00:13:25.240 You may have already noticed that we've been pixelating all the knobs 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:26.880 on grounds of taste and decency. 00:13:29.040 --> 00:13:31.280 - Bollocks. 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.360 Two hours later, 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:40.160 and it's time for art scarf me to meet Medici me. 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:43.440 How have you done that? 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:48.440 I like that I look very slightly evil in that one. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:51.880 So, I'm just looking at it closely 00:13:51.880 --> 00:13:54.040 because, obviously, it's just marks on a board, 00:13:54.040 --> 00:13:55.800 but it doesn't look like marks on a board, does it? 00:13:55.800 --> 00:13:57.800 It looks... It's me. 00:13:57.800 --> 00:14:00.440 Have you been... These are epic. 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:02.000 - This... 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.240 I like the way some of you have captured my tubbiness as well, 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.640 which wasn't there before I came to Italy, I just want to say that. 00:14:11.800 --> 00:14:13.480 The school has generously said I can take 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:17.240 one of these masterpieces home with me. 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.080 I do have to say grazie mille, mille, mille, mille, mille. 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:25.280 That was incredibly difficult, 00:14:25.280 --> 00:14:29.920 because I had to stand in front of the artists 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:34.000 and say whose picture I liked best, 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.760 which was a little bit awkward, 00:14:37.760 --> 00:14:41.000 but I did choose one. 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:44.480 The one that I thought was not-not the best likeness of me, necessarily, 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.040 but the one that was most about me. 00:14:47.040 --> 00:14:49.320 And I didn't say which one it was, 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:51.360 and then I asked the crew to do the same thing, 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:55.640 and weirdly everybody made the same selection. 00:14:55.640 --> 00:15:00.360 And the crew, remember, do have to look and listen to me all day long, 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:02.400 which is why they're paid so much. 00:15:02.400 --> 00:15:04.720 Anyway, here it is. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:11.800 That is not simply a picture of me. 00:15:11.800 --> 00:15:14.760 It's the essence of what I am. 00:15:14.760 --> 00:15:17.400 That's what portraiture is all about, 00:15:17.400 --> 00:15:20.840 and that's what makes this art. 00:15:21.880 --> 00:15:24.680 I'm going to leave my essence in the car for now, 00:15:24.680 --> 00:15:28.360 because it's time for a trip down Via Memory. 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.320 This is actually the first place I ever came in Italy, 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:34.240 back in 1986, to this covered market, 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.480 so let's have a wander around. 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.320 Despite the rise of veganism 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:43.160 and the world turning away from bovine-based paraphernalia, 00:15:43.160 --> 00:15:46.320 the Italians still can't get enough of the stuff. 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:51.080 Back in 1986, I was obviously very young and very broke, 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:54.880 but I did rustle together enough lira, as it was then, 00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:59.480 to buy myself a souvenir, and it was a little leather money purse 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.680 with a spring-loaded top that you squeezed together. 00:16:02.680 --> 00:16:05.640 And, remarkably-- and I'm not making this up-- 00:16:05.640 --> 00:16:08.080 it's still in use today. There it is. 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.320 These days, it holds my ear buds and earphones, 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:14.480 and my-my little adapters for my smartphone, 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.400 and lots of things that hadn't been invented back then. 00:16:17.400 --> 00:16:21.280 One of the things I've learned over the intervening 35 years, 00:16:21.280 --> 00:16:23.800 during which this has been in constant use, 00:16:23.800 --> 00:16:27.520 is that it's not actually leather. 00:16:27.520 --> 00:16:29.600 It's vinyl. 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:31.520 And I think the bloke who sold it to me is over here, 00:16:31.520 --> 00:16:34.040 so I'm gonna go and have a word with him. Oy. 00:16:34.040 --> 00:16:38.040 The index-linked refund came to two euros fifty... 00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:41.040 coincidentally, exactly enough for lunch. 00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:42.480 Buon giorno. 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.720 Un piccolo lampredotto, per favore. 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:47.440 It's tripe. 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:48.760 It's a... it's a cow's stomach. 00:16:48.760 --> 00:16:50.400 Cows have multiple stomachs, 00:16:50.400 --> 00:16:54.040 and this is specifically the third one, I'm told. 00:16:54.040 --> 00:16:55.880 This is a Florentine thing. 00:16:55.880 --> 00:16:58.280 Well, since 1893, it says right here. 00:16:58.280 --> 00:17:02.560 - It looks like a very old swimming cap. 00:17:06.320 --> 00:17:09.680 Doesn't look very promising, but it's actually pretty good. 00:17:11.040 --> 00:17:13.560 Mmm! 00:17:13.560 --> 00:17:16.280 - Buono. - Buono. 00:17:17.520 --> 00:17:19.040 Let's walk back to the covered market. 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:21.320 Excuse me. Talking with my mouth full. 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:26.440 Now we're alone, viewers, 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:29.920 and we're out of earshot of the vendor. 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.120 I can see why it hasn't caught on. 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:38.320 I binned it and bought the wallet back. Quite tasty. 00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:40.320 ♪ ♪ 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:49.400 because I also came to this building on my left, the Museo Galileo, 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:53.800 which back then was known by the rather more snappy title, I think, 00:17:53.800 --> 00:17:58.600 of the Museum of the History of Science of Florence. 00:17:58.600 --> 00:18:00.560 It's shut. 00:18:02.320 --> 00:18:05.360 Today, though, I have special permissions. 00:18:05.360 --> 00:18:07.800 I can have the entire museum to myself, 00:18:07.800 --> 00:18:11.360 just me and the ghost of Galileo. 00:18:14.120 --> 00:18:16.480 Born in 1564, 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.600 Galileo Galilei was a figurehead in observing things. 00:18:20.600 --> 00:18:23.040 He was called the father of astronomy, modern physics, 00:18:23.040 --> 00:18:26.000 scientific method and modern science, 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.800 which, even by Renaissance standards, are odd names for your kids. 00:18:30.840 --> 00:18:32.760 Galileo was later tried for heresy 00:18:32.800 --> 00:18:35.360 because he dared to agree with the Copernican theory 00:18:35.360 --> 00:18:36.960 that the Earth moved around the Sun, 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:39.840 and he spent his last ten years under house arrest. 00:18:39.840 --> 00:18:41.320 He did not, however, 00:18:41.320 --> 00:18:44.280 contrary to popular belief, do the fandango. 00:18:44.280 --> 00:18:46.160 That is Galileo. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.280 And it's funny to think that when he died, 00:18:49.280 --> 00:18:51.880 he was buried in a pauper's grave 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:54.640 because he was considered dangerous. 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:56.880 It was only about a hundred years later that people started to realize, 00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:58.960 "No, maybe Galileo was onto something." 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:04.720 Galileo was an early adopter of the telescope and even made his own. 00:19:04.760 --> 00:19:07.240 This is a replica. 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:09.480 They wouldn't let me handle the real thing, 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.240 but this is what the telescope looked like in Galileo's day. 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:17.400 Just a very simple objective and whatever the other lens is called, I've forgotten. 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.800 So you would point the... 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:23.880 You can just edit 'round that bit. 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.000 It's made of real leather, you know? 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:31.400 Galileo's work helped to prove that Copernicus was right. 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:35.160 The armillary sphere shows the Earth in the middle of the universe, 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:39.360 whereas, in fact, it's just a planet going around the Sun. 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:41.040 And now, some marbles. 00:19:41.040 --> 00:19:45.000 Here is a reproduction of an experiment that was devised by Galileo, 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.520 and it helped overthrow the ancient teachings of Aristotle 00:19:48.520 --> 00:19:53.520 who said that things fell to earth at a constant rate 00:19:53.520 --> 00:19:56.320 and in proportion to their weight, 00:19:56.320 --> 00:19:59.840 so a cannonball would fall quicker than a pea, for example. 00:19:59.840 --> 00:20:03.400 So what Galileo did was design this inclined plane. 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:06.080 There's a ball in it, which rolls down. 00:20:06.080 --> 00:20:08.160 And with the addition of the bells, you can demonstrate 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:13.520 that the ball accelerates at a rate such that the distance it's gone 00:20:13.520 --> 00:20:17.720 in a given unit of time is equal to that unit of time squared. 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:19.760 What it actually means... 00:20:19.760 --> 00:20:22.320 You see how the bells are further apart. 00:20:22.320 --> 00:20:25.400 They will ring regularly. 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.800 And... three, two, one. 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:34.080 The ball hasn't come back. 00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:38.560 Seriously, this is like you've put 50p in Space Invaders and... 00:20:40.840 --> 00:20:41.840 Hang on. 00:20:41.840 --> 00:20:45.000 Has anybody got something like a coat hanger? 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.040 Anyway, it's time to stop playing Renaissance pinball 00:20:49.040 --> 00:20:52.720 because the curator, Elena, wants to show me the finger. 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:54.520 - Oh, hello. - Hello. 00:20:54.520 --> 00:20:56.600 Here it is. Galileo's finger. 00:20:56.600 --> 00:20:58.040 - That is... - The middle. 00:20:58.040 --> 00:21:00.880 - And this is...? - Index and thumb. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:07.000 So, these were recovered after he was exhumed, about 100 years after his death, 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:09.240 and they dug him up and they moved him into the church. 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:13.520 And at that point, his finger was taken 00:21:13.520 --> 00:21:15.240 - like holy relics. - Yeah. 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:16.840 See, I find that a bit odd, 00:21:16.840 --> 00:21:21.560 because the church effectively condemned Galileo, 00:21:21.560 --> 00:21:26.080 but yet, ironically, his finger and finger and thumb 00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:29.280 are now preserved exactly in the way that the relics of a saint would be, 00:21:29.280 --> 00:21:31.000 and they've gone back to being 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:34.840 objects of religious rather than scientific veneration. 00:21:34.840 --> 00:21:36.360 So he was a revolutionary, 00:21:36.360 --> 00:21:38.440 but his own revolution ultimately destroyed him. 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:40.280 Often the way. 00:21:40.280 --> 00:21:42.320 Che Guevara, I suppose. Who else? 00:21:42.320 --> 00:21:44.320 - Leon Trotsky. - Leon Trotsky. 00:21:46.120 --> 00:21:47.640 The white gloves of Michael Jackson. 00:21:49.080 --> 00:21:51.120 - The what? 00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:52.920 No, you're right, actually. No. 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.240 No, because they are... they're on display somewhere. 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:57.000 Aren't they? They're in... they're in a box. 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:00.760 The... the white gloves of Michael Jackson. 00:22:00.760 --> 00:22:02.760 ♪ ♪ 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:14.240 Right, that's the first part of science done. 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:18.360 Now to change into something more comfortable for chemistry. 00:22:19.360 --> 00:22:23.720 This is the magnificent Santa Croce. Fabulous, isn't it? 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:26.640 And its attendant piazza is also fabulous. 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:28.680 There's a statue of Dante, look. 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:30.920 There are some frescos on the wall over there and little cafés. 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:32.920 It's all gorgeous. What's wrong with this scene? 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:34.280 I'm in it. 00:22:34.280 --> 00:22:36.240 And despite my efforts to be Italian 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.960 with my new expensive Italian cardigan and T-shirt thing, 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:42.960 I'm still a bit of a mess, and that's only the beginning, really. 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.520 I don't smell that great, either, so let's see if we can do something about that. 00:22:48.040 --> 00:22:50.040 ♪ ♪ 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:54.560 Wanting to smell nice is nothing new. 00:22:54.560 --> 00:22:58.920 Ancient civilizations, from the Chinese to the Carthaginians, 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:01.600 all used perfumes of sorts. 00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:04.120 The Egyptians, in fact, were the first people 00:23:04.120 --> 00:23:06.600 to give bottles of perfume to their mummies. 00:23:06.600 --> 00:23:09.400 For the last 700 years, however, 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:13.320 it's the Italians who have been elevating it to a fine art. 00:23:13.320 --> 00:23:17.320 The name of this operation I'm now visiting is Aquaflor, 00:23:17.320 --> 00:23:21.160 which is actually Latin, and it means, basically, flower water, 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:23.400 which is what the earliest perfumes were. 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:26.440 Now, we know that perfume has been made in Florence 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:29.040 since the early 13th century. 00:23:29.040 --> 00:23:31.760 And this 14th-century building operates today 00:23:31.760 --> 00:23:36.400 as a sort of top secret smells laboratory. 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:41.600 Aquaflor creates bespoke fragrances for the wealthy and respected, 00:23:41.600 --> 00:23:44.760 but they're allowing me in today. 00:23:44.760 --> 00:23:47.080 And I've booked a personal consultation. 00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:51.560 It also smells like that floor of the department store 00:23:51.560 --> 00:23:54.040 where men only go when they've been on a long business trip, 00:23:54.040 --> 00:23:55.440 if you know what I mean. 00:23:58.040 --> 00:24:01.000 Now, I'm searching for the scent of man. 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:03.800 Well, a man: me. 00:24:03.800 --> 00:24:07.520 And for that, I need a virtuoso of noses, 00:24:07.520 --> 00:24:09.840 an enchanter of aromas, 00:24:09.840 --> 00:24:13.120 a wizard of whiffs to cast me a smell. 00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:17.200 And here is one. His name is Caesis. 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:21.720 What a nice place to work. 00:24:21.760 --> 00:24:27.680 The technical term for this olfactory emporium is... an olfactorium. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:32.360 It contains thousands of raw perfume-making materials, 00:24:32.360 --> 00:24:34.360 tinctures and extracts. 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:38.640 I've asked Caesis to concoct a cologne using my favorite smells: 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.840 lavender, freshly cut grass, 00:24:40.840 --> 00:24:44.920 petrol, bicycle inner tubes and kebab. 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:47.880 The top notes, the ones that come out at the beginning, 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.320 will be some citrus with lavender. 00:24:50.320 --> 00:24:52.680 Lavender actually does remind me of the UK. 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:57.440 And then for the kebab spices: pepper, cloves and nutmeg. 00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:59.160 I haven't heard the bicycle inner tube yet. 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:02.840 - Is there any... - The bicycle will come out of the leather 00:25:02.840 --> 00:25:06.880 with some styrax, which is, uh, a resin from a tree 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:09.200 that smells quite rubbery. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:11.440 - Now, we talk about musk. - Mm-hmm. 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:13.920 And musk is a vital part of perfume, 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:17.920 and musk actually comes from the * gland or from the ass of... 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:21.080 Nether regions of the Himalayan deer, yes. 00:25:21.080 --> 00:25:24.560 So when Tennyson writes, "the musk of the rose is blown," 00:25:24.560 --> 00:25:26.520 and this is supposed to be very romantic, 00:25:26.520 --> 00:25:29.880 and so what-what he's actually saying is "the ass of the rose is blown." 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:32.080 - Okay. - So, don't worry. 00:25:32.120 --> 00:25:33.320 - Asides. - In your perfume, 00:25:33.320 --> 00:25:34.880 the musk is a synthetic musk. 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:36.800 It's not the deer's * inside there. 00:25:36.800 --> 00:25:40.280 Okay, no deer's *. 00:25:41.280 --> 00:25:44.880 Um, I'm very, very excited now to know what I smell like. 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:46.480 You smell like poo. 00:25:46.520 --> 00:25:48.520 - Yes, thank you. - Brussels sprouts. 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:52.600 What's the weirdest smell you've ever been asked to... 00:25:52.600 --> 00:25:55.200 ...invoke or recreate? 00:25:55.200 --> 00:26:00.440 Was once... a girl that asked me the smell of blood 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.600 in a barn. 00:26:03.600 --> 00:26:05.520 - Blood in the barn? - Yeah. 00:26:05.520 --> 00:26:08.320 In a barn, like with animals, the hay and everything, 00:26:08.320 --> 00:26:09.880 and the smell of blood as well. 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:12.960 - Like murder? - That one freaked me out. Yeah. 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:14.840 Right. 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:17.320 Suddenly, I feel better about my kebab request. 00:26:18.600 --> 00:26:21.960 And now, Caesis blends over 40 ingredients 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:24.520 to become the essence of me. 00:26:24.520 --> 00:26:26.280 So, now it's diluted in alcohol. 00:26:27.760 --> 00:26:29.360 And we're gonna bottle it. 00:26:30.360 --> 00:26:33.600 That's the meaning of me going into that bottle, 00:26:33.600 --> 00:26:35.280 and when it comes back out of the bottle, 00:26:35.280 --> 00:26:39.280 I'm released and become present, like a genie or a spirit. 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:43.320 There you are. Ready. 00:26:43.320 --> 00:26:45.240 We're gonna just try it now, but as I told you, 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.360 wait for at least a month before you try it again. 00:26:50.360 --> 00:26:51.760 - Okay? - Okay. 00:26:51.760 --> 00:26:54.480 - So it matures. - Yes. 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:55.840 Now it's gonna be a little bit rough. 00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:59.480 - Feel the spray? - Yeah, I can feel it. 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:00.520 Yeah. 00:27:01.520 --> 00:27:02.920 Well, it's definitely pleasant. 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:05.760 I would say that-that smells masculine. 00:27:05.760 --> 00:27:08.840 - It smells slightly industrial but not offensively so. - Mm-hmm. 00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:12.160 - You're seeing all the notes come out. - Yes, yes. 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:14.800 - Slowly revealing themselves. - It's changing 00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:17.560 as I make this rather absurd gesture. 00:27:17.560 --> 00:27:19.920 I mean, I have to think of a name for it. 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.320 What should we call the scent of me? 00:27:26.840 --> 00:27:29.640 ♪ ♪ 00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:37.000 ♪ ♪ 00:27:46.560 --> 00:27:48.840 ♪ ♪ 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:57.880 Fiasco: Il grande odore dell'uomo. 00:27:57.880 --> 00:27:59.600 ♪ ♪ 00:28:02.600 --> 00:28:06.640 I'm now leaving the Italian Renaissance behind in Florence... 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:09.400 Well, I'm knackered now and I can't speak. 00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:14.000 ...to peddle up to the Italian present in Emilia-Romagna, 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.120 which is nearly 100 miles away? 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.560 - Um... - You haven't gone very far. 00:28:19.560 --> 00:28:23.960 Well, look behind you. It's further than it looks. 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:26.640 Just having a small rest is what you do when you ride a bike. 00:28:28.280 --> 00:28:30.760 Well, bugger that for a game of soldiers. 00:28:31.800 --> 00:28:33.680 Ah, that's better. 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.040 Now, I'm sure most of you will be familiar with my fetishes by now: 00:28:37.040 --> 00:28:39.800 exquisite Byzantine mosaics, for example, 00:28:39.800 --> 00:28:43.360 or a well-turned walnut instrument. 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:49.240 Or this. This is a Ferrari. 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:54.680 And not even a scruffy presenter 00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:58.400 in car enthusiast jeans could spoil this view. 00:28:59.760 --> 00:29:01.360 If you had to draw 00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:04.800 a triangle representing all of humankind's 00:29:04.800 --> 00:29:07.640 ambitions and aspirations, 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.200 then somewhere near the top, if not at it, 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:12.400 would be a Ferrari. 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:16.760 A Ferrari is a car, of course, but it's also an objet d'art, 00:29:16.760 --> 00:29:18.680 an object of desire. 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:20.800 It is the perfect synthesis 00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:24.720 between the technological and the artistic. 00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.360 I'm going to show you... 00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:29.800 how it's made. 00:29:30.840 --> 00:29:36.360 The first Ferrari rolled out of this factory in 1947. 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:39.480 The cars are called Ferrari after the company's founder, 00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:41.320 who was called Ferrari. 00:29:41.320 --> 00:29:43.240 Enzo Ferrari himself 00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:45.920 supposedly said that when you buy a Ferrari, 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:47.800 you actually pay for the engine, 00:29:47.800 --> 00:29:50.040 and the rest of the car is free. 00:29:50.040 --> 00:29:53.560 The engine starts life here in the foundry. 00:29:53.560 --> 00:29:56.200 And the foundry... This is the only European carmaker 00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:58.000 that still has its own foundry. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:00.840 This is a fabulous part of the process 00:30:00.840 --> 00:30:03.080 because, yes, it's high-tech, 00:30:03.080 --> 00:30:06.080 but it's also occult. 00:30:07.760 --> 00:30:12.040 As someone who once worked in a foundry, I'm excited. 00:30:12.040 --> 00:30:13.640 Very excited. 00:30:16.040 --> 00:30:19.240 The foundry is where the big bits of the engine are cast. 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:23.800 It's where earth, fire and metal conspire like witches 00:30:23.800 --> 00:30:27.440 over a cauldron to spawn the trembling heart 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:29.000 of the living machine. 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.160 Ooh, cores. 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:34.160 These are the cores. So, these are the bits 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:36.960 that form the cavities inside the casting. 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:41.360 So they're made of sand, but it's sand mixed with a resin that is then hardened, 00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:45.040 so it's not gonna fall apart like a sandcastle when I touch it. 00:30:45.040 --> 00:30:47.160 And the really weird thing about working in a foundry, 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:49.160 and especially if you make the molds, 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:51.320 is you have to think of everything in reverse. 00:30:51.320 --> 00:30:55.800 That is something that isn't going to be there. 00:30:55.800 --> 00:30:57.360 See what I mean? 00:30:57.360 --> 00:30:59.080 To produce the bit 00:30:59.080 --> 00:31:00.600 that actually is going to be there, 00:31:00.600 --> 00:31:04.000 aluminium is hearted to over 800 degrees Celsius, 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:06.920 around the same temperature as the inside of Mount Etna, 00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:08.720 forge of the gods. 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:11.320 This is a holding furnace. Molten aluminium 00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:14.400 has been poured into here and then alloyed with copper 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.160 or one or two other things to make the aluminium alloy. 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:18.680 That's going to go in there, 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.280 and then it's going to go into this automatic casting machine, 00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:23.160 and then we will see it go into the mold. 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:26.440 That is the beginning of the creation of the engine. 00:31:28.600 --> 00:31:30.040 Here you are. 00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:33.680 - If he drops it, 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.680 we have to run away very, very quickly because it spreads very quickly, 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:39.760 and it makes a terrible mess of your shoes. 00:31:39.760 --> 00:31:43.520 This recipe for the perfect piping hot aluminium soup 00:31:43.520 --> 00:31:47.120 represents centuries of metallurgical advancements, 00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:50.920 but, at its core, it remains a rather ancient process. 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:52.560 It's also rather Promethean 00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:55.720 because the whole thing is covered in flames, 00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:57.800 and, of course, we are melting the core of the Earth 00:31:57.800 --> 00:32:00.400 or remelting the core of the Earth, if you like. 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.480 The aluminium comes out of an ore. 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:04.880 It was solid. It becomes liquid. 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:08.520 Then it becomes solid again, but this time, it's a Ferrari. 00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:14.920 Yes, yes, yes. 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:16.600 Squirt, 00:32:16.600 --> 00:32:19.040 cylinder head, blam. 00:32:19.040 --> 00:32:20.440 It's amazing. 00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.400 Now the aluminum has cooled and solidified, 00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:26.520 the sand can be bashed away to reveal... 00:32:26.520 --> 00:32:27.960 It's magic. 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:29.920 ...the casting. 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:33.280 You will have noticed a lot of robotic arms 00:32:33.280 --> 00:32:36.680 and a lot of computer screens, but in the end, it's a foundry, 00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.720 and quite a bit of it still relies 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.520 on the skill of the operators. 00:32:40.520 --> 00:32:42.960 The first inspection is simply visual. 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:45.160 A man looks at it to say... 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.640 "Delicious casting." 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:51.640 Which brings me nicely to the next bit, 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:53.560 where I am allowed to do something delicious myself. 00:32:53.560 --> 00:32:57.160 I'm going to make a core. 00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.160 That is, create a bit of the not-there engine. 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:03.240 This is deburring, to take the sharp edges 00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:08.160 off the core, which has been made in a mold of its own. 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:09.920 If you didn't knock these off, they'd be washed away 00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:11.960 by the aluminum as it came in, and then they'd become 00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:15.000 what's called an inclusion in the finished casting. 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.200 That's bad. 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:18.160 The core is made up of several pieces 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:21.360 that are then stuck together, so you get one core set 00:33:21.360 --> 00:33:24.160 that simply drops into place in the mold. 00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:30.600 Lesson in mold deburring done, now it's my turn. 00:33:30.600 --> 00:33:33.400 So, start at this edge. Sì? 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:38.680 Very satisfying. 00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:41.200 Good? Good. 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.600 Oh, there's a n-nasty bit there. 00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:45.800 You see that edge there? 00:33:45.800 --> 00:33:48.760 That's all got to be smoothed over. 00:33:48.760 --> 00:33:51.240 Normally, when I do careful and skilled things like this, 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:54.200 the director shouts "Cut" and bodges it. 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:56.120 Okay, I have control. 00:33:56.120 --> 00:34:00.400 But for once, they actually let me finish a job properly. 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.280 That went home, as they say in engineering. 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:06.080 Bravo. 00:34:16.120 --> 00:34:18.960 Here are some the professionals made earlier. 00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:21.000 I'm going to move on to another key job. 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.120 A tree of Ferrari key rings. 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:27.480 Sand is here, we got four minutes. 00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.080 - Buon giorno. - Buon giorno. 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:32.000 ♪ ♪ 00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:36.960 Now we've got about two and a half minutes left 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:38.200 before it goes completely hard. 00:34:38.200 --> 00:34:40.480 And two and a half minutes later... 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:44.200 The other half of the mold is a simple lid, 00:34:44.200 --> 00:34:46.960 which has in it the runners and risers. 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.000 That's where the aluminum goes in and then comes back out again. 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.440 We reassemble that. 00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:57.480 We are then ready to pour. 00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:59.920 Once the molds are made, the aluminum is poured 00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:03.200 and left to cool, so let's cut to the unveiling. 00:35:03.200 --> 00:35:06.280 It's so exciting, this bit, it's still slightly warm. 00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:12.240 Who would like a Ferrari key ring? 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:14.440 There you are. 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.200 Ferrari key ring? 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:24.440 Sadly, I had to give that nice red coat back, which is a shame. 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:27.000 But there is one last perk of the job. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:33.240 This is the hallowed tarmac of Ferrari's Fiorano test circuit, 00:35:33.240 --> 00:35:37.120 and I've been given permission to go around it, 00:35:37.120 --> 00:35:38.320 so let's do that. 00:35:45.640 --> 00:35:47.360 Oh, only kidding. 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:50.080 Yes, all right, I'll go around in the Ferrari. 00:36:00.200 --> 00:36:04.560 This is the rather appropriately-named Ferrari Roma. 00:36:04.560 --> 00:36:08.200 Packing a whacking great 612 horsepower 00:36:08.200 --> 00:36:10.680 and with a top speed of 199 MPH, 00:36:10.680 --> 00:36:15.000 the Roma can do nought to 60 in just 3.4 seconds. 00:36:15.080 --> 00:36:18.840 It'll also set you back a mere 170 grand. 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:22.240 This is a first-world observation, I appreciate that, 00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:26.720 but driving around in a Ferrari does make you feel bloody good. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:35.480 In some ways we've arrived at a little bit of a paradox here, 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:38.320 because the thing that makes the Ferrari so delicious 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:42.200 from here is, of course, the engine, 00:36:42.200 --> 00:36:45.400 and that is the bit of it that is most anachronistic. 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:50.400 That's the bit that, supposedly, we're going to say goodbye to very soon. 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.440 But, to be honest, if this Ferrari ends up 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:56.320 being entirely electric, I'm not sure I'm going to mind. 00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:59.800 So much of what makes it a wonderful thing will survive. 00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:01.720 I'm ready for the new Ferrari. 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:13.800 The next day, now the proud owner of a new Ferrari... key ring, 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:16.080 mia Panda and I take a short jaunt up the road. 00:37:16.080 --> 00:37:18.120 Well, I'm heading into the hills, 00:37:18.120 --> 00:37:20.880 and I know I've said this several times already, 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:26.120 but this really is a spectacularly good-looking country. 00:37:26.120 --> 00:37:28.920 The Italians are completely ruined. 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:31.120 I mean, it's not fair. 00:37:31.120 --> 00:37:35.000 But I'm not here for the frankly incredible views. 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.440 I'm here to visit a boring-looking warehouse 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:40.960 that's actually a gold mine. 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:44.640 I am high in the hills of Emilia-Romagna, 00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:49.240 the region that produces the world-famous Parmesan cheese. 00:37:49.240 --> 00:37:51.280 Except of course, it's not actually called that. 00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:56.160 It's correctly called Parmigiano Reggiano cheesiano. 00:37:56.160 --> 00:37:58.280 And you will know, if you have been to a supermarket, 00:37:58.280 --> 00:37:59.880 that it's incredibly expensive, 00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:03.600 because it is an extremely valuable commodity, 00:38:03.600 --> 00:38:06.840 so valuable in fact-- and I'm not making this up-- 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.160 it has its own bank. 00:38:09.160 --> 00:38:13.200 It's here. This is a cheese bank. 00:38:13.200 --> 00:38:16.160 And I promise you, you will be astonished. 00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:21.240 Now, since I've been wearing this jacket, 00:38:21.240 --> 00:38:23.400 the crew have been saying how Italian I look. 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:26.720 I've no idea where they get that idea from. 00:38:29.240 --> 00:38:32.840 It's like something from The Matrix, only with fewer men in dark glasses 00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:34.640 and a bit more cheese. 00:38:34.640 --> 00:38:36.960 Wow. 00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:39.440 This is cheese. 00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:46.600 Cheese, cheese, cheese. 00:38:46.600 --> 00:38:48.720 I know you're probably struggling to see me, 00:38:48.720 --> 00:38:51.960 so here's me talking to you in close-up. 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:53.440 Parmigiano Reggiano 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:55.960 is actually first and foremost a definition. 00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:59.320 You can't just make cheese a bit like this and call it Parmigiano Reggiano. 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:02.200 It comes from the milk of cows that have fed 00:39:02.200 --> 00:39:04.400 on the grass of this region, 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:09.960 and it is made purely with that milk, calves' rennet and salt. 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:15.600 And even once it's been made, it's not yet officially cheese. 00:39:15.600 --> 00:39:18.120 Not Parmigiano Reggiano, anyway. 00:39:20.200 --> 00:39:22.280 In order to qualify as Parmigiano Reggiano, 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.240 the cheese must mature for at least 12 months 00:39:25.240 --> 00:39:27.640 and then pass an exam-- 00:39:27.640 --> 00:39:31.440 their cheese C.S.E.s, if you like-- to see if they've made the grade. 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:34.120 Here is some cheese that has passed. 00:39:34.120 --> 00:39:37.960 Here is some cheese that has passed but is only considered second-rate. 00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:41.800 And then, over here, there is some, 00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:44.920 I'm very sorry to have to say, failed cheese. 00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:48.160 This... Can you see how the-the rind 00:39:48.200 --> 00:39:51.320 has been scraped away by the quality control people? 00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:53.160 This is now Italian hard cheese. 00:39:53.160 --> 00:39:56.960 Still nice, but frankly, not good enough. 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:58.920 Not for the cheese bank. 00:40:03.160 --> 00:40:07.200 Cheese. Cheese. 00:40:07.200 --> 00:40:10.200 Yep, it's cheese. 00:40:10.200 --> 00:40:13.440 One wheel of Parmesan cheese like this 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:17.560 is worth between three and four hundred euros wholesale, 00:40:17.560 --> 00:40:19.960 although please do remember that the value of your cheese 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.080 can go down as well as up. 00:40:22.080 --> 00:40:24.880 The total value of the cheese in this bank 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:27.960 is around 70 million euros, 00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:29.800 and for that reason, there are three levels 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:34.400 of very tight security on the building, because, unsurprisingly, 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.760 Italy does have its cheese bandits. 00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.880 If you can hijack and steal an articulated lorry 00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:45.160 full of cheese, you are rich. 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:47.720 When a cheese producer deposits their cheese 00:40:47.720 --> 00:40:52.560 at the cheese bank, they get a loan of 70% of its value, 00:40:52.560 --> 00:40:56.920 like selling cheese futures or visiting a cheese pawn shop. 00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:59.400 But if it turns out your formaggio stinks, 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:03.480 then you can end up owing the bank quite a bit of cheddar. 00:41:05.120 --> 00:41:08.480 Giacomo, Alessandro. 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:10.880 They are cheese testers, and they are feared, 00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:12.480 because they have the final say, 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.800 "Is this proper Parmigiano Reggiano or is it not?" 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:19.440 And they find this out using, believe it or not, a hammer. 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:21.360 But not just any old hammer, 00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:27.120 a Parmigiano Reggiano-certified cheese hammer. 00:41:27.120 --> 00:41:28.880 The Truckle Brothers here 00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:33.320 test over a thousand cheeses a day to ensure Parmesan perfection. 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:41.000 Can I just try... 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:42.680 - Yeah, sure. - ...tapping this? Thank you. 00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:53.400 It does feel a bit like hitting some cheese with a hammer. 00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:55.000 Doesn't it? 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:59.960 It also sounds like hitting cheese with a hammer, 00:41:59.960 --> 00:42:02.880 but these highly-trained cheese whisperers can detect 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:05.120 even the slightest defect, 00:42:05.120 --> 00:42:07.640 like an air bubble, which affects the density 00:42:07.640 --> 00:42:09.000 and therefore quality. 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.000 - Does that sound good? - Yeah, 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:12.880 this one sound good. 00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:14.400 - Can we put the stamp on? - Yeah, sure. 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:15.760 Excellent. 00:42:18.680 --> 00:42:22.000 I've been desperate to cut the cheese ever since I arrived here, so... 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.960 I can't say that. 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:27.360 It's a really puerile eight-years-old's joke, 00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:30.200 but when you say "I've cut the cheese..." 00:42:31.600 --> 00:42:34.880 - ...it means "I've farted." 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:36.600 - What's the... - Peto. 00:42:36.600 --> 00:42:38.560 - Peto. 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:42.920 - As soon as I arrived here this morning, 00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:44.880 I thought, "I want to cut the cheese." 00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:46.960 - Is that possible? - Yes, of course. 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:49.440 - Good. 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:51.960 - Okay, go ahead. 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.960 You join us at a very exciting moment. 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:55.560 We're about to cut the cheese. 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.240 I think the professionals should take over for a bit. 00:43:00.240 --> 00:43:04.040 We cut the wheel exactly in the middle. 00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:09.040 - What a responsibility. Here? - Yeah. 00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:13.160 Oh, yes. It's gonna go, isn't it? 00:43:14.560 --> 00:43:17.240 Yay. 00:43:17.240 --> 00:43:20.280 Is that bit there about to fall off? 00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:21.360 Oh, it fell off. 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:27.000 Oh, man in heaven, it is fantastic. 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.600 It's got that granular thing, but it's a bit creamy as well. 00:43:30.600 --> 00:43:35.760 Mmm, yeah, it's really, really nice cheese. 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:39.280 I'll just show you a few shots of the cheese bank that you haven't seen yet, 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:41.560 and then I'll be on my way. 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:48.840 I'm now heading for the town of Barga, 00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:52.080 which is quite unusual in Italy for having... 00:43:52.080 --> 00:43:53.640 well, a number of things. 00:43:53.640 --> 00:43:55.520 A Celtic supporters club 00:43:55.560 --> 00:43:57.560 and a fish and chip shop. 00:43:57.560 --> 00:44:01.640 But that's because Barga is actually Scottish. 00:44:01.640 --> 00:44:03.240 Now, bear with me a bit on this one, 00:44:03.240 --> 00:44:06.720 but in the mid-19th century, when Italy unified, 00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:08.560 there was a bit of a problem with unemployment, 00:44:08.600 --> 00:44:12.840 so a lot of Italians left the country to seek their fortunes elsewhere. 00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:14.680 Normal sort of thing. 00:44:14.680 --> 00:44:16.120 Quite a lot of them went to Britain, 00:44:16.120 --> 00:44:18.680 and quite a lot of those ended up in Scotland. 00:44:18.680 --> 00:44:20.400 Now, about a hundred years later, 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:24.680 a lot of those Scottish Italians started coming back to Italy, 00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:28.720 in particular, the town of Barga, where I'm headed now. 00:44:28.720 --> 00:44:33.480 It is, reputedly, Italy's most Scottish town. 00:44:33.520 --> 00:44:35.520 ♪ ♪ 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:40.960 Barga looks like any other pretty Italian hilltop town. 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:42.520 Almost. 00:44:42.520 --> 00:44:44.680 But the whole place is riddled 00:44:44.680 --> 00:44:46.360 with ambient cèilidh music. 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:49.200 - Buonasera. - How you doing, man? 00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:51.200 Oh, I'm doing very well. 00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:53.520 - Pleased to meet you. Marco. 00:44:53.520 --> 00:44:55.520 They're very welcoming here, which makes me think 00:44:55.520 --> 00:44:57.800 none of them have ever actually been to Glasgow. 00:44:57.800 --> 00:44:59.240 Good evening, Mr. May. 00:44:59.240 --> 00:45:00.280 - Good evening. - How are you? 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:01.760 Very well. How are you? 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:03.560 This is very odd. 00:45:03.560 --> 00:45:05.240 Are you actually Scottish or Italian? 00:45:05.240 --> 00:45:07.720 I'm Italian, but brought to Scotland at the age of one. 00:45:07.720 --> 00:45:09.440 This is very Scottish, they've all started drinking 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:10.880 at about 4:00 p.m. 00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:14.120 Most of Barga's residents have Scottish genes, 00:45:14.120 --> 00:45:16.720 including the pub's owner Stefano, 00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:19.120 although tonight they're wearing their kilts. 00:45:19.120 --> 00:45:20.440 In Barga, in general, 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.840 people, uh, after the First World War 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:26.720 and even after the second one, they moved to-to Scotland. 00:45:26.720 --> 00:45:28.800 We always say in Barga, everybody in the family has 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.240 at least one Scottish relative. 00:45:31.240 --> 00:45:35.920 Without wishing to be insensitive, back in Britain, 00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:40.360 the Scots have a reputation for hard drinking of beer. 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:42.880 Does that translate to the Scottish Italians? 00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:46.000 We drink wine with the food, and then after, we like 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:47.960 to drink our beers, we like to come to the pub, 00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:49.800 we like our whiskies. 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:51.840 But the idea of standing at a bar like this 00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:54.240 and simply drinking beer and talking bollocks, 00:45:54.240 --> 00:45:56.680 let's be honest, that's not particularly Italian, 00:45:56.680 --> 00:45:58.280 - is it? - No, it's not. 00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:00.720 That's why w-we are the most Scottish town in Italy. 00:46:00.720 --> 00:46:03.040 - Salute. - Salute. 00:46:03.040 --> 00:46:05.080 But normally, there could be, like, five, six hundred people 00:46:05.080 --> 00:46:06.800 outside the front. 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:08.000 - In fact, Paolo... - 600? 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:09.240 - Yeah. Oh, easy. - Really? 00:46:09.240 --> 00:46:12.000 Oh, easy. E-Even Paolo Nutini... 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:13.840 You... I don't know if you've heard of the singer? 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:15.160 - Paolo... - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. 00:46:15.160 --> 00:46:16.880 He's from here and he's-he's actually 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:18.800 - at the front every night here. - That right? 00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.400 I should probably 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.440 line my stomach in the restaurant next door. 00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:26.160 As is the way of people living far from home, 00:46:26.160 --> 00:46:29.680 the townsfolk of Barga love to celebrate their ancient culture. 00:46:29.680 --> 00:46:33.000 ♪ Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low ♪ 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:34.920 ♪ Through the streets, in my kilt I'll go ♪ 00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:36.880 ♪ And all the lassies shout "Hello!" ♪ 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.840 ♪ Donald, where's your trousers? ♪ 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:40.920 This is fantastic. 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:42.880 "Zuppa porri e patate." 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:44.680 The potato soup, obviously. 00:46:44.680 --> 00:46:47.000 "Rivestito da pasta sfoglia." 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.600 "Haggis." 00:46:48.600 --> 00:46:52.920 Notice, there is no Italian word for "haggis." 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:55.440 Now, it's not actually Burns Night for another two months, 00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:57.600 but hey, when in Barga.... 00:46:57.600 --> 00:46:59.640 This beastie here is called a haggis, 00:46:59.640 --> 00:47:01.600 and traditionally in Scotland, uh, 00:47:01.600 --> 00:47:04.680 the animal has to be murdered before eating it. 00:47:04.680 --> 00:47:06.440 And, uh... 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.280 when we do that, we always recite a beautiful poem 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:10.640 written by Robert Burns. 00:47:10.680 --> 00:47:13.520 And tonight, our guest of honor James May 00:47:13.520 --> 00:47:15.280 is going to read that poem to us. 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:18.120 - Grazie mcmille. 00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:23.080 Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, 00:47:23.080 --> 00:47:27.000 Great Chieftain o' the Puddin-race. 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.720 His knife see Rustic-labour dight, 00:47:31.720 --> 00:47:35.560 An' cut ye up wi' ready slight, 00:47:35.560 --> 00:47:40.400 Trenching your gushing entrails bright... 00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:43.600 - Hang on. 00:47:43.600 --> 00:47:45.480 - There you can see, yeah. 00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:48.600 But if ye wish her grateful prayer, 00:47:48.600 --> 00:47:50.720 Gie her a Haggis! 00:47:56.600 --> 00:47:58.520 Of all the places to look 00:47:58.520 --> 00:48:00.200 for la dolce vita, 00:48:00.200 --> 00:48:01.680 I wouldn't have chosen Scotland. 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.440 I said I wouldn't have chosen Scotland! 00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:08.840 But I think these guys have found it. 00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:10.880 Well, I hope this episode has been as enjoyable 00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:13.240 to watch as it has been for us to make, 00:48:13.240 --> 00:48:15.680 because it's been a proper Renaissance experience. 00:48:15.680 --> 00:48:18.360 We've had natural history on the bike ride, 00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:20.600 we've had art with drawing and painting, 00:48:20.600 --> 00:48:23.280 a bit of cooking, a bit of science, 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.200 some music at the opera house, 00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:26.960 and if it all gets a bit too much, 00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:29.640 you can just come to Barga and round off your experience 00:48:29.640 --> 00:48:33.680 by being Scottish in the rain, which is tremendous. 00:48:33.680 --> 00:48:37.040 So, I'd just like to say arrivederci for now, 00:48:37.040 --> 00:48:41.600 and buonanotte the noo. 00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:44.560 Thank you for watching. 00:48:44.560 --> 00:48:47.760 Oh, bollocks, I need a piss. 00:48:50.640 --> 00:48:53.680 Now, the keen-eared among you 00:48:53.680 --> 00:48:55.480 may have just heard me mention opera. 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:02.840 ♪ ♪ 00:49:08.520 --> 00:49:10.480 Cheese. 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:14.680 Cheese. Cheese. 00:49:14.680 --> 00:49:17.120 Cheese? Cheese. 00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:19.200 Yep, it's cheese. 00:49:19.200 --> 00:49:21.520 This is cheese. 00:49:21.520 --> 00:49:25.680 Cheese. Cheese. 00:49:25.680 --> 00:49:27.880 Cheese. 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:31.320 Really, really nice cheese.