The Little World of Don Camillo (No. 1 in the Don Camillo series)

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Don Camillo: Mondo Piccolo = The Little World of Don Camillo (Don Camillo #1), Giovannino Guareschi It is just after the Second World War. In a little village in Northern Italy's Po Valley, the local priest is the big, burly Don Camillo, who has little compunction about poaching game, breaking the law, or letting fly with his fists, benches (or even a stolen tommy gun) at anyone who doesn’t agree with his views. The political bigwig in the village is the Communist Mayor, Giuseppe Botazzi 'Peppone', with whom Don Camillo has an ongoing feud. A feud that involves everything from sabotaging an annual church procession, to disrupting a visiting politician’s speech—and invariably with results that are comical, but also a heart-warming reflection on human beings. On people, their ability to straddle two worlds, to be traditional and modern, leftist and thoroughly orthodox Catholic, enemy and friend. Each story takes only about ten minutes to listen to. Each story has the same message, so I have no desire to proceed to the next. They are cute. They are sweet. They illustrate the friendship between a communist mayor and a hot-headed Catholic priest. The setting is right after the Second World War in a small village in the Po valley of Italy. Poichè l'autore me ne ha gentilmente dato il permesso, riporto qui la recensione che ScaP ha scritto del libro. Parole migliori non credo esistano per commentarlo. Don Camillo is a character created by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi, whose name, and some of his character, is based on an actual Roman Catholic priest, World War II partisan and detainee at the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen, named Don Camillo Valota (1912–1998).

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Don Camillo and the Devil. [Pub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957] (Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) The stories are simple, straightforward and dispense with lengthy examinations of setting and long descriptions of the cast - the author moves through letting the character's actions define them. Cleverly, their actions often are completely different than the things they say, or the roles they play. Even Christ, more often than not, chastises the Priest in light of his actions regarding Peppone. In an age of overly complex plots, multiple story lines, stream of consciousness prose, dozens of characters, globetrotting characters, worldwide implications it is great to enjoy a book like this. All of the events take place in a small Italian town, with virtually no plot implications beyond the town and its inhabitants. These include main characters Don Camillo, the Catholic Priest and Peppone, the mayor and communist party leader. Non è possibile, ed è bellissimo che sia così; perché leggendo le storie del Mondo Piccolo nella mia testa risentivo le voci del film, con le loro musicali intonazioni dialettali, rivedevo il cipiglio di Peppone, la faccia tosta di Don Camillo, la pacata rassegnazione del Cristo crocifisso motteggiante; una magnifica lettura multisensoriale! 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.I due attori, quasi coetanei, divennero subito grandi amici, tanto da fare da testimoni al matrimonio di Carlotta Guareschi, figlia dello scrittore che diede vita ai personaggi di Don Camillo e Peppone.

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After crossing the Square he began to walk down the main street, and here again was emptiness and silence. A small dog came out of a side street and began quietly to follow Don Camillo.Many stories are satirical and take on the real world political divide between the Italian Roman Catholic Church and the Italian Communist Party, not to mention other worldly politics. Others are tragedies about schism, politically motivated murder, and personal vendettas in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, but not everyone necessarily likes everyone else very much. Non si può leggere questo libro senza sovrapporre ad ogni frase, ogni descrizione, ogni parola i visi, le mimiche e le movenze di Gino Cervi e Fernandel. I got this book as a gift and it was a funny, heartwarming, enchanting little story, unlike anything I have read. The Return of Don Camillo (Italian: Il ritorno di don Camillo ; French: Le Retour de don Camillo) [7] (1953) The vignettes generally become turf wars between Don Camillo against Peppone and his cast of idiologues, battles concerning power and influence. Pissing contests ensue amidst labor strikes and Bishop visits. The village itself has a very Old World feel to it, heavily agricultural, a close-knit community still in pain from the continental wars. Don Camillo, prone to stealing machine guns from the local communist militias, is an outsized figure. As fanciful as it seems to create such a satire, I imagine it captures some semblence of midcentury Italian culture.

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It was also the highest-grossing film in France of all-time and is currently the sixth most watched French film at the cinema with 12,791,168 admissions and the 17th most watched film in France. [2] Sequel [ edit ] Old Maguggia interrupted him. "Let's get one thing clear. I'm asking for help from you, Don Camillo, a man I hold in high esteem, not you Don Camillo the priest who I must hold in low esteem because of the very fact that you are a priest." I can find them with an effort," said Don Camillo. "I was not suggesting that You should have taken charge of my men's legs, which in any case were the best of the lot. But I do say that You did not prevent that dishonest referee from calling an unjust foul against my team." Political forces other than the Communists and the Catholics have only a marginal presence. In one episode the local Communists are incensed at the announcement that the small Italian Liberal Party has scheduled an election rally in their town, and mobilize in force to break it up—only to discover virtually no local Liberals have turned up; the Liberal speaker, a middle-aged professor, speaks to a predominantly Communist audience and wins its grudging respect by his courage and determination.The Einaudi arrest occurred after Giovanni's satirical magazine, Candido, which had helped engineer the defeat of the 'Fronte Popolare' (the Communists) in '48, depicted Einaudi at the Quirinal Palace, surrounded by a presidential guard of giant bottles of Nebbiolo wine, suggesting perhaps that his love for the wine he produced on his farm near Dogliani might have eclipsed his commitment to the people. Guareschi's short tales center on disagreements between the political Peppone, and the religious Don Camillo - though Jesus plays a major role as he communicates with Camillo through the church's Crucifix.