To make language learning more enjoyable and effective and combine it with cultural information on the country of the target language, the second set of 13 programs of AVANTI! AVANTI!, an Italian language course for beginners, has been produced in the form of parodistic drama presenting historic moments in the lives of famous Italians such as Dante, Marco Polo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galilei, Casanova, Verdi and, here, Garibaldi.