In the post-war years (after 1945), Don Camillo Tarocci (his full name, which he rarely uses) is the hotheaded priest of a small town in the Po valley in northern Italy. He is a big man, tall and strong with hard fists. For the films, the town chosen to represent that of the books was Brescello (which currently has a museum dedicated to Don Camillo and Peppone) after the production of movies based on Guareschi's tales, but in the first story Don Camillo is introduced as the parish priest of Ponteratto. Humor and warmth are the main threads in these stories. But as one might expect given all the author had lived through, there is a sobering darkness to these stories too. The stories still have the feel of comedy that had experienced tragedy. It brings depth to the tales and humanity to the characters. Don Camillo's Dilemma. [Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Young, Inc., 1954] (Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) In Don Camillo's Little World, where the Cold War is fought on the very doorstep of life, the hot-headed Catholic priest and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, confront one another in riotous and often hilarious manner. Don Camillo and the Devil. [Pub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957] (Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye)

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This book is a collection of stories featuring, Don camillo, a burly, earthy and deeply conservative catholic priest and his opponernt, the communist mayor of the village, Peppone. The stories are set in a village on the Po river valley of Italy in the immediate post war years. Catholics and communists had formed a united front in fighting off Fascism and nazism during world war 2 but once the war got over they find themselves at loggerheads. Although the conflicts between Don Camillo and Peppone always are on substantial issues, these are ultimately resolved in a good natured way; often with Peppone giving way. These are amusing stories that prove that there is a shared humanity that can bridge polittical and ideoplogical divides. No. 5: Don Camillo and Company (2018) ISBN 978-1900064408 (All 24 stories in this volume were published here in English for the first time) Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi. [Pub: Rizzoli, 1969] Literally: Little World: Don Camillo and the Youth of Today The film was the highest-grossing film in Italy of all-time [6] and is currently the seventh most watched Italian film at the cinema with 13,215,653 admissions. [1] Guareschi, Giovanni (2013). The Complete Little World of Don Camillo, Biographical Afterword by Piers Dudgeon , pp. 240-241. Sawdon, North Yorkshire: Pilot Productions. ISBN 978-1900064071.

Don Camillo, Peppone and several other recurring characters fought in the Italian Resistance during WWII. Don Camillo is a priest and Peppone the Communist Lord Mayor of the little Po Valley town of Mondo Piccolo. Comrade Don Camillo. [Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc., 1964] ( Mondo Piccolo: Il compagno don Camillo, translated by Frances Frenaye)

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The Little World of Don Camillo was adapted by the Thai writer and politician Kukrit Pramoj into his own 1954 novel, Phai Daeng (Red Bamboo). It's hard, usually, at least for me, to render a total and impartial judgment of a dubbed movie, but in my opinion the acting was superb, the casting was excellent, and the presentation of Guareschi's vision of this Po River Valley village was close enough to perfect. The author of these stories, Giovannino Guareschi, was a journalist, who, like the characters in this book, shared a history in WWII. Indeed, the character of Don Camillo himself was, supposedly, based upon a real priest, who was a partisan and, later prisoner at Dachau, during the war. Although the war is only alluded to by Peppone and Don Camillo, it is obvious that both men were comrades, during that time, and their shared history has made them trust each other.The Return of Don Camillo (Italian: Il ritorno di don Camillo; French: Le Retour de don Camillo) [7] The author captures human nature at its pettiest, stubbornist, heart warmingest, and most gratuitous. Don Camillo: Monsignor (Italian: Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo; French: Don Camillo Monseigneur) [9] (1961) The Don Camillo stories reflect Giovanni's life of conflict, but also his search for enlightenment. In episode after episode, the hot-headed Catholic priest, Don Camillo, and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, confront one another, sometimes in a serious and violent manner. But the clever bit is the way Giovanni not only engineers a resolution to this, but transforms the situation to the great benefit of the local community, so that the two men put their political

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Don Camillo ( pronounced [ˈdɔŋ kaˈmillo]) and Peppone ( pronounced [pepˈpoːne]) are the fictional protagonists of a series of works by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi set in what Guareschi refers to as the "small world" of rural Italy after World War II. Most of the Don Camillo stories came out in the weekly magazine Candido, founded by Guareschi with Giovanni Mosca. These "Little World" (Italian: Piccolo Mondo) stories amounted to 347 in total and were put together and published in eight books, only the first three of which were published when Guareschi was still alive. Don Camillo takes the Devil by the Tail. [Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Young, Inc., 1957] (Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye)I suspect the translator did a very good job for this edition -- if he could conjure laughs alongside great imagery, that's a great endorsement. But I'm sure there were a lot of other bits of comedy that couldn't cross the great divide created by language, time, and space. Still, I find a lot of the stories fulfilling, the comedy well-timed, and the experience relevant enough to revisit. Contains La favola di Natale (Edizioni Riunite, 1946 - Guareschi's war-time experiences) alongside Don Camillo Christmas stories. That world is the flood plain of the River Po, Emilia Romagna in Italy. The soil there, nourished by thousands of years of effluvium from the flooding Po, is the richest in Italy. Bologna, the provincial capital, has the best food in the country. But these are the stories of the people of the plain, of the farmers and mechanics and one large, ham-handed priest who suffer through the unrelenting glare of the summer, then suffer through the rising fog and the long damp of the winter. It was a malarial land, dangerous as well as bountiful, and its people were touched by its geography: harsh, generous, superstitious and pious. My relatives live there now, and it hasn’t changed so much since Don Camillo’s days in the middle of the 20th century. Yes, it’s richer, the coast is tourified, but the geography is still overwhelming.