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Trieste in summer
In summer Trieste turns toward the sea. Without real beaches in the city center, Triestines swim from the concrete platforms and the pine-shaded shore along the Barcola waterfront, and from the historic bathing establishments. The bora gives way to warm, still days, and life moves onto terraces and balconies. Neighborhood life in an Italian city still revolves around a few fixed points: the newsstand, the bar, the pharmacy. An edicolante who has served the same customer for decades knows which paper she reads, and a disagreement about it can be a ritual of affection as much as a complaint. This lesson reviews the grammar of the last block: concession with benché, sebbene and pur + gerund; reported orders with dire di; the absolute participle (finiti i controlli, detto questo); and the change of register that follows the switch from lei to tu.