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Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (Italian: [dÊovanËniËno É¡waËreski]; 1 May 1908 â 22 July 1968) was an Italianjournalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.
Life and career[edit]
Giovannino Guareschi was born into a middle-class family in Fontanelle di Roccabianca, Province of Parma, in 1908.[1] He always joked about the fact that he, a big man, was baptized Giovannino, a name meaning 'little John' or 'Johnny'.
In 1926 his family went bankrupt and he could not continue his studies at the University of Parma. After working at various minor jobs, he started to write for a local newspaper, the Gazzetta di Parma.[2] In 1929 he became editor of the satirical magazine Corriere Emiliano, and from 1936 to 1943 he was the chief editor of a similar magazine called Bertoldo.[1]
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In 1943 he was drafted into the army, which apparently helped him to avoid trouble with the fascist authorities.[1] He ended up as an artillery officer.
When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in 1943, he was arrested as an Italian military internee and imprisoned with other Italian soldiers in camps in German-occupied Poland for almost two years, including at Stalag X-B near Sandbostel. He later wrote about this period in Diario Clandestino (My Secret Diary).
After the war Guareschi returned to Italy and in 1945 founded a monarchist weekly satirical magazine, Candido.[1] After Italy became a republic, he supported the Democrazia Cristiana party. He criticized and satirized the Communists in his magazine, famously drawing a Communist as a man with an extra nostril, and coining a slogan that became very popular: 'Inside the voting booth God can see you, Stalin can't'. When the Communists were soundly defeated in the 1948 Italian elections, Guareschi did not put his pen down but criticized the Democrazia Cristiana party as well.
In 1950, Candido published a satirical cartoon by Carlo Manzoni poking fun at Luigi Einaudi, President of the Republic. The President is at the Quirinal Palace, surrounded by, instead of the presidential guard of honour (the corazzieri), by giant bottles of Nebbiolo wine, which Einaudi actually produced on his land in Dogliani. Each bottle was labeled with the institutional logo. The cartoon was judged 'in Contempt of the President' by a court at the time. Guareschi, as the director of the magazine, was held responsible and sentenced.
Fernandel as Don Camillo
In 1954 Guareschi was charged with libel after he published two facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi requesting that the Allies bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize German collaborators. The legitimacy of the letters was never established by the court, but after a two-month trial it found in favour of De Gasperi. Guareschi declined to appeal the verdict and spent 409 days in Parma's San Francesco jail, and another six months on probation at his home.[3]
His most famous comic creations are his short stories, begun in the late 1940s, about the rivalry between Don Camillo, a stalwart Italian priest, and the equally hot-headed Peppone, Communist mayor of a Po River Valley village in the 'Little World.' These stories were dramatized on radio, television and in films, most notably in the series of films featuring Fernandel as Don Camillo.
By 1956 Guareschi's health had deteriorated and he began spending time in Switzerland for treatment. In 1957 he retired as editor of Candido but remained a contributor.
He died in Cervia in 1968 of a heart attack, at age 60.
Selected bibliography[edit]
Published English translations[edit]
Filmography[edit]
Filmography about Don Camillo[edit]
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External links[edit]
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CS1 German-language sources de CS1 Italian-language sources it Articles needing additional references from August All guardschi needing additional references Commons category link from Wikidata. After crossing the Square he began to walk down the main street, and here again was emptiness and silence. In this later collection, Peppone is the proprietor of several profitable dealerships, riding the âBoomâ years of the s in Italy. Giovanniâs message is that what works at the micro level of the Little World can be made to work universally, the world over.
I am interested in souls. Don Camillo, where guaresdhi your brains? By his health had deteriorated and he began to spend time in Switzerland for health reasons.
Don Camillo (Giovannino Guareschi)
Through the crucifix he hears the voice of Christ. You would be hard pressed to find a more charming book anywhere than this set of short stories. The Don Camillo stories reflect Giovanniâs life of conflict, but also his search for enlightenment. Sep 04, Colin rated it it was amazing Shelves: Nevertheless, your sin would have been greater if Binella, accepting your offer, had agreed to cheat on behalf of your team.
Don Camillo wished he were a tank. Don Camillo, of course, has other ideas. It is peopled with some utterly memorable characters: Nicole rated it really liked it Nov 25, Nothing con be further from the truth. So when Peppone arranges for an important visitor to broadcast communist propaganda from a large platform in the big square and directs loudspeakers right at the church, Camillo drowns out camiko sound by âleaping and bounding cheerfully in the bell-chamber of the church tower Get back to your lairs and pray God to forgive you your savagery.
However, I will leave you with this additional lengthy excerpt which answers the question of whether praying for your favorite team to win works or cakilo. He is quite prepared to don a false beard and moustache and knock out a champion boxer â or even toss a bomb onto the roof of the Peopleâs Palace, thus exploding a case of dynamite that had been hidden there, so saving the village from an even worse danger.
Cleverly, their actions often are completely different than the things they say, or the roles they play. Boscaccio has a communist This tragicomical stories, often politically or socially charged, mostly situated in a fictional village on the Po called Boscaccio, in the period immediately after World War II, paint a clear picture of the post-war Italy.
Your men had twenty-two legs and so had the Dynamos, Guarechi Camillo, and all legs are equal. A small dog came out of a side street and began quietly to follow Don Camillo. The village was completely deserted; people were cowering in their houses and watching through the cracks of the shutters.
His bishop tries to keep him in order by sending him away from dpn to time to a remote mountain village â but he is fighting a losing battle, as the villagers refuse to accept any other priest that they are sent.
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Don Camillo, the priest and Peppone, the communist Mayor. Books by Giovannino Guareschi. May 29, Roseyreads rated it really liked it. The idea of having one longer than another is particularly clever.
Thanks for telling us about the problem. He criticized and satirised first the Communists, then the Christian Democrats of whom he had been a supporter. Spelling guaresci not his strong point, and when he decides to take an eighth-grade examination alongside children to make up for his incomplete schooling, it is only with Camilloâs help his cheating, in fact that he earns his diploma â even if he finds that, following Camilloâs instructions, he ends up by writing an essay on âThe Day of my First Communionâ to do it.
They also appear to have both been partisan fighters during World War II ; one episode mentions Camillo having braved German patrols in order to reach Peppone and his fellow Communists in the mountains and administer Mass to them under field conditions.
Vuareschi were former partisans in the recent war, but now they represent the extreme poles of human philosophy: Reading the stories in this light adds to the fun.
The only difficulty is in telling which is which. Mondo piccolo stories amounted to in total and were put together and published in eight books, only the first three of which were published when Guareschi was still alive.
Because then the Dynamos would have done the beating up, and you would have been powerless to stop them. Don Camillo e Peppone sono due personaggi magistrali: I really enjoy the way Don Camillo and Peppone are apparently enemies, total opposites yet really best friends, both giareschi for the good of others. It is the amusing, if unlikely, story of how Peppone,who has become a senator!
The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi
And that means America, the Vatican, big businessmen, priests, land-owners, reactionaries, fascists, royalists, royalists, social-democrats, Imperialists, nationalists, militarists and intellectuals. His most famous comic creations are the books of short stories he wrote about the rivalry between Don Camilloa stalwart Italian priest, and the equally hot-headed Pepponethe communist mayor of a village in the âLittle Worldâ of a Po River Valley town.
He was a journalist, writer, humorist. In addition, Don Camil 3. Should there be some Barabbas among you who is not ready to give ugareschi all even to the last drop of his blood, I shall not indulge in Pepponeâs histrionics with regard to the smashing of faces. But I do say that You did not prevent that dishonest referee from calling an unjust foul against my team.
I had seen the films of Don Camillo the catholic priest played by Fernandel v Peppone the communist mayor played by Gino Cervi and found them very amusing. At the same time, it describes in guarescchi charming way how even the worst e Delightful and humorous! Humor mixed with morality. Iâve read it before and Iâll read it again. Peppone pulled off his hat, and Don Camillo marched solemnly through two rows of Pepponeâs men.
And it brought, occasionally, a lump to my throat. Many stories are satirical and take on the real world political divide between the Italian Roman Catholic Church and the Italian Communist Partynot to mention other worldly politics.
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