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

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Mondo Piccolo: Il compagno don Camillo. [Pub: Rizzoli, 1963] Literally: Little World: Comrade Don Camillo

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Last fall my mom brought up a series of stories she used to enjoy with my grandfather when she was young - "They were about this Italian priest in a little village, and the communist mayor who was his enemy, and they would fight all the time - they were funny."

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Don Camillo's Last Round (Italian: Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone; French: La Grande Bagarre) [8] Giovanni Guareschi, himself a native of the Lower Plain, first drew breath in Fontanelle di Roccabianca on May Day, 1908, returning to buy a house there in Roncole Verdi in 1952, after a decade of getting himself arrested, variously by Mussolini's Fascists, Hitler's Nazis, and Italy's President, Luigi Einaudi. Guareschi created a second series of novels about a similar character, Don Candido, Archbishop of Trebilie (or Trebiglie, literally "three marble balls" or "three billiard balls"). The name of this fictional town is a play on words of Trepalle (literally "three balls"), a real town (near Livigno) whose priest was an acquaintance of Guareschi's. 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). No. 6: Don Camillo’s Dilemma (2019) ISBN 978-1900064477 (12 stories in this volume were published in English for the first time)

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A couple of criticisms are that the first few stories are not as strong and it is important to bear in mind that Jesus shouldn't be interpreted as Jesus but as the conscience of the author which is why he may feel off if you don't have quite the same interpretation of Jesus as the author. Otherwise the character development is a bit slow and the characters are not particularly complex but given it is written as a sitcom style serial for a satirical magazine this is to be expected. Both Don Camillo and Peppone are large, strong men, violence is never far away but mostly avoided. Peppone realises that Don Camillo has the edge in physical strength, but Don Camillo (sometimes reminded by Christ) tries to restrain himself. It's an odd film from Duvivier, whose movies often celebrated the unseen hand of fate, leading men to destruction. Yet in this movie, everyone knows who they are and what is important, even if they disagree fiercely. So the old teacher rails against stupidity and hopes for a pension; the young lovers re-enact Romeo and Juliet; and the communist brings his newborn child to be baptized as Giuseppi Stalin. The film was produced by Francinex (Paris) and Rizzoli Amato (Rome). It belongs to a long series of Franco-Italian (or Italo-French) coproductions which provided hundreds of movies to the cinema during 30 years after World War II. 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).As the story opens, we meet hot-tempered Don Camillo complaining to the Lord about the recent election of the town's Communist contingent. The new Mayor, Peppone, is a particular thorn in Camillo's side, as the two have had an on-going rivalry which only escalates after the election. Conflicts abound: Peppone wants to have his son baptized "Lenin," but Don Camillo has other ideas. The priest has been trying for years to scrape together the money for a town recreation center, then suddenly the Communists tap an unorthodox source of funds and build their own "People's Palace." Peppone wants to fly the Red banner at a church procession, and he doesn't take Don Camillo's veto well. Don Camillo invests heart and soul into a soccer match between the church's team and the Party's, and he doesn't understand why the Lord declines to take a side. The Communists call a strike against the local landowners, but Don Camillo is determined to save the neglected farm animals. And somehow, amid all the sometimes humorous, sometimes serious conflict, a Catholic "Juliet" and a Communist "Romeo" have fallen in love. Can priest and mayor lay down their fists and help them?

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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." a b "TOP250 tous les temps en France (Reprises incluses)". JP's Box-office . Retrieved October 3, 2019. The Little World of Don Camillo. [Pub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951] ( Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo, translated by Una Vincenzo Troubridge) Peppone and his comrades are sometimes seen at odds with the city-based Communist bureaucrats, who are sometimes seen as "barging in" and trying to dictate policy to the local Communists without knowing the local conditions. This is paralleled by Don Camillo sometimes coming into serious conflict with his Bishop, on one occasion a case of flagrant disobedience leading to Camillo being exiled to a tiny village high in the mountains; however, the Bishop is soon forced to reinstate him at the strong demand of his parishioners (including the Communists).Contains La favola di Natale (Edizioni Riunite, 1946 - Guareschi's war-time experiences) alongside Don Camillo Christmas stories. In one story, Don Camillo visits the Soviet Union, pretending to be a comrade. In another, the arrival of pop culture and motorcycles propels Don Camillo into fighting "decadence", a struggle in which he finds he has his hands full, especially when Christ mainly smiles benevolently on the young rascals. In this later collection, Peppone is the owner of several profitable dealerships, riding the "Boom" years of the 1960s in Italy. He is no longer quite the committed Communist he once was, but he still does not get on with Don Camillo – at least not in public. Don Camillo has his own problems: the Second Vatican Council has brought changes in the Church, and a new assistant priest, who comes to be called Don Chichì, has been foisted upon him to see that Don Camillo moves with the times. Don Camillo, of course, has other ideas. 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) a river blessing procession and the funeral of the town's generally respected old teacher, Ms. Christina, which are both kept strictly non-political despite the Communists' initial intentions. The Little World of Don Camillo. [Pub: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1950] ( Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo, translated by Una Vincenzo Troubridge)