About this season
Speciale Superquark was a spin off of the Superquark show, conceived and conducted by Piero Angela
Episodes (4)
1. Il grande viaggio di Marco Polo
Aired 5 October 1999 • 107 min
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.
2. Leonardo Da Vinci: ritratto di un genio (prima parte)
Aired 28 December 1999
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.
3. Leonardo Da Vinci: ritratto di un genio (seconda parte)
Aired 4 January 2000
4. Cristoforo Colombo. Storia di un incredibile viaggio
Aired 3 March 2000 • 118 min
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.