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Don Camillo () and Peppone () are the fictional protagonists of a series of works by the Italian writer and journalist
Giovannino Guareschi Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (; 1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo. Life and career Giovannino Guareschi was born into a middle-class famil ...
set in what Guareschi refers to as the "small world" of rural
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after
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. Most of the Don Camillo stories came out in the weekly magazine ''
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'', 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 is a parish priest and is said to have been inspired by an actual
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priest,
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partisan and detainee at the concentration camps of
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and
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, named Don Camillo Valota (1912–1998). Guareschi was also inspired by Don Alessandro Parenti, a priest of
Trepalle Trepalle is a village (the highest in Italy) in the Italian Alps, a ''frazione'' of Livigno, Lombardy. It is sometimes considered to be the village located at the highest altitude in Europe with its church located at an altitude of 2,069 m, and t ...
, near the Swiss border. Peppone is the
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town mayor. The tensions between the two characters and their respective factions form the basis of the works' satirical plots.


Characterisation

In the post-war years (after 1945),
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Camillo Tarocci (his full name, which he rarely uses) is the hotheaded priest of a small town in the
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in northern
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. He is a big man, tall and strong with hard fists. For the films, the town chosen to represent that of the books was
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(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. Don Camillo is constantly at odds with the
Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
mayor, Giuseppe Bottazzi, better known as Peppone (meaning, roughly, 'Big Joe') and is also on very close terms with the
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in his town church. Through the crucifix he hears the voice of Christ.As the author notes in the preface of the first book, not the Christ, but "his" Christ, the voice of his conscience. The Christ in the crucifix often has far greater understanding than Don Camillo of the troubles of the people, and has to constantly but gently reprimand the priest for his impatience. What Peppone and Camillo have in common is an interest in the well-being of the town. They also appear to have both been
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fighters during
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; 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. While Peppone makes public speeches about how "the reactionaries" ought to be shot, and Don Camillo preaches
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against "godless Communists", they actually grudgingly admire each other. Therefore, they sometimes end up working together in peculiar circumstances, though keeping up their squabbling. Thus, although he publicly opposes the Church as a Party duty, Peppone takes his gang to the church and baptises his children there, which makes him part of Don Camillo's flock; also, Peppone and other Communists are seen as sharing in veneration of the
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and local Saints. Don Camillo also never condemns Peppone himself, but the ideology of communism which is in direct opposition to the church. As depicted in the stories, the Communists are the only political party with a mass grassroots organization in the town. The Italian Christian Democratic Party, the main force in Italian politics at the time, does not have a local political organization (at least, none is ever mentioned); rather, it is the Catholic Church which unofficially but very obviously plays that role. Don Camillo thus plays an explicitly political as well as religious role. For example, when the Communists organize a local campaign to sign the Stockholm Peace Appeal, it is Don Camillo who organizes a counter-campaign, and the townspeople take for granted that such a political campaign is part of his work as priest. Many stories are satirical and take on the real world political divide between the Italian
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and the
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, not to mention other worldly politics. Others are tragedies about schism, politically motivated murder, and personal
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s in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, but not everyone necessarily likes everyone else very much. 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
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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. In one story, Don Camillo visits the
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, pretending to be a
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. 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
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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. Despite their bickering, the goodness and generosity of each character can be seen during hard times. They always understand and respect each other when one is in danger, when a flood devastates the town, when death takes a loved one, and in many other situations in which the two "political enemies" show their mutual respect for one another and fight side by side for the same ideals (even if they are each conditioned by their individual public roles in society). 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
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(literally "three balls"), a real town (near
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) whose priest was an acquaintance of Guareschi's.


Books in chronological order

The following Italian language books have been published: * ''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo''. ub: Rizzoli, 1948Literally: ''Little World: Don Camillo'' * ''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge''. ub: Rizzoli, 1953Literally: ''Little World: Don Camillo and His Flock'' * ''Mondo Piccolo: Il compagno don Camillo''. ub: Rizzoli, 1963Literally: ''Little World: Comrade Don Camillo'' The following Italian language books have been published posthumously: * ''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi''. ub: Rizzoli, 1969Literally: ''Little World: Don Camillo and the Youth of Today'' * ''Gente così''. 1980. * ''Lo spumarino pallido''. 1981. * ''Noi del Boscaccio''. 1983. * ''L'anno di don Camillo''. 1986. * ''Il decimo clandestino''. 1987. * ''Ciao don Camillo''. 1996. * ''Don Camillo e don Chichì''. 1996. The complete version of ''Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'' * ''Don Camillo e Peppone''. ub: Rizzoli, 2007 The following US English translations have been published: * ''The Little World of Don Camillo''. ub: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1950(''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo'', translated by Una Vincenzo Troubridge) * ''Don Camillo and His Flock''. ub: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1952(''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge'', translated by
Frances Frenaye Frances Frenaye (1908-1996) was an American translator of French and Italian literature.Eric Pace ''The New York Times'', April 15, 1998. She translated work by writers including Balzac, Carlo Levi, Ignazio Silone and Elie Wiesel. Works * Natal ...
) * ''Don Camillo's Dilemma''. ub: Farrar, Straus, and Young, Inc., 1954(Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) * ''Don Camillo takes the Devil by the Tail''. ub: Farrar, Straus, and Young, Inc., 1957(Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) * ''Comrade Don Camillo''. ub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc., 1964(''Mondo Piccolo: Il compagno don Camillo'', translated by Frances Frenaye) * ''Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children''. ub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc., 1970(''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'', translated by L. K. Conrad) The following UK English translations have been published: * ''The Little World of Don Camillo''. ub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951(''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo'', translated by Una Vincenzo Troubridge) * ''Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son''. ub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1952(''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge'', translated by Frances Frenaye) * ''Don Camillo's Dilemma''. ub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1954(Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) * ''Don Camillo and the Devil''. ub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957(Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) * ''Comrade Don Camillo''. ub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1964(''Mondo Piccolo: Il compagno don Camillo'', translated by Frances Frenaye) * ''Don Camillo Meets Hell's Angels''. ub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970(''Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'', translated by L. K. Conrad) The following five were compiled into a larger book published in 1980: ''The World of Don Camillo'',The World of don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi, pub 1980 Victor Gollancz Ltd; to coincide with the television adaptation: * ''The Little World of Don Camillo''. * ''Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son''. * ''Don Camillo's Dilemma''. * ''Don Camillo and the Devil''. * ''Comrade Don Camillo''. ''The World of Don Camillo'' does not contain all the stories contained in the individual books. The Italian, US English and UK English publications often have a different number of stories within them.


Pilot Productions authorised complete English-language edition (2013 onwards)

The Guareschi family only discovered after 1980 that the original English language publishers made unauthorised cuts in stories, and only published 132 of the original 347 Italian stories. After an approach from Piers Dudgeon of Pilot Productions, the family authorised him to publish uncut translations into English of all the original 347 stories. The copyright is vested in the family, and the books published so far are: * No. 1: ''The Complete Little World of Don Camillo'' (2013) * No. 2: ''Don Camillo and His Flock'' (2015) * No. 3: ''Don Camillo and Peppone'' (2016) * No. 4: ''Comrade Don Camillo'' (2017) * No. 5: ''Don Camillo and Company'' (2018) * No. 6: ''Don Camillo’s Dilemma'' (2019) * No. 7: ''Don Camillo Takes the Devil by the Tail'' (2020) * No. 8: ''Don Camillio and Don Chichi'' (2021) * No. 9: ''Merry Christmas Don Camillo'' (2022)


Media


Films

A series of black-and-white films were made between 1952 and 1965. These were French-Italian coproductions and were simultaneously released in both languages. Don Camillo was played by French actor
Fernandel Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born near Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan to ...
, Peppone by the Italian actor
Gino Cervi Luigi Cervi (3 May 1901 – 3 January 1974), better known as Gino Cervi (), was an Italian actor. He was best known for portraying Peppone in a series of comedies based on the character ''Don Camillo'' (1952-1965), and police detective Jules M ...
, quite a Guareschi-lookalike, both tall and bulky with big mustaches. The author of the original stories was involved in the scripts and helped select the main actors. To this day, the films are screened in Europe. The titles were: *''
Little World of Don Camillo ''The Little World of Don Camillo'' ( it, Don Camillo; french: Le Petit Monde de don Camillo) is a 1952 Italian-French film directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. It was the first film in the ''"Don Camillo"'' series, which ...
'' (Italian: ''Don Camillo''; French: ''Le Petit Monde de don Camillo'') *''
The Return of Don Camillo ''The Return of Don Camillo'' (Italian: ''Il ritorno di Don Camillo''; French: ''Le Retour de don Camillo'') is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Édouard Delmont. The film's sets ...
'' (Italian:'' Il ritorno di don Camillo''; French: ''Le Retour de don Camillo'') *''
Don Camillo's Last Round ''Don Camillo's Last Round'' (French: ''La grande bagarre de Don Camillo'', Italian: ''Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone'') is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Leda Gloria. It was t ...
'' (Italian: ''Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone''; French: ''La Grande Bagarre'') *'' Don Camillo: Monsignor'' (Italian: ''Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo''; French:'' Don Camillo Monseigneur'') *''
Don Camillo in Moscow ''Don Camillo in Moscow'' ( it, Il compagno Don Camillo, "Comrade Don Camillo"; french: Don Camillo en Russie, "Don Camillo in Russia") is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was the fifth film in the Don Camillo series ...
'' (Italian: ''Il compagno don Camillo''; French:'' Don Camillo en Russie'') Christian-Jaque began filming the French-Italian film ''Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi'' in 1970 but had to stop filming due to Fernandel's falling ill, which resulted in his untimely death. The film was then realized in 1972 by Mario Camerini with
Gastone Moschin Gastone Moschin (8 June 1929 – 4 September 2017) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. Career Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), Moschin graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began hi ...
playing the role of Don Camillo and
Lionel Stander Lionel Jay Stander (January 11, 1908 – November 30, 1994) was an American actor in films, radio, theater and television. He is best remembered for his role as majordomo Max on the 1980s mystery television series ''Hart to Hart''. Early ...
as Peppone. A Don Camillo (''
The World of Don Camillo ''The World of Don Camillo '' (in Italy ''Don Camillo'') is a 1983 Cinema of Italy, Italian comedy film directed, produced and starring Terence Hill, and is a remake of ''Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo'' (1952). Both were based on the novel ''Don C ...
''; Italian: ''Don Camillo'') film was remade in 1983, an Italian production with
Terence Hill Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtim ...
directing and also starring as Don Camillo.
Colin Blakely Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish actor. He had roles in the films '' A Man for All Seasons'' (1966), ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' (1970), ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), and '' Eq ...
performed Peppone in one of his last film roles.


Radio

A
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English-language radio dramatization of ''The Little World of Don Camillo'' was broadcast in 2001 starring
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as Don Camillo, John Moffatt as the Bishop,
Shaun Prendergast Shaun Prendergast (born 1958) is an English actor and writer. Career He was born in North Shields and holds a BA Hons from Bretton Hall College. He was an actor and playwright in residence for Northumberland Theatre Company before joining the ...
as Peppone and
Joss Ackland Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English retired actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Del ...
as God, and rebroadcast in July 2010 on
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. Four further
BBC Radio BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927). The service provides national radio stations covering th ...
series of ''The Little World of Don Camillo'' were made, with the final series broadcast on
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in December 2006. Ian Hogg replaced Armstrong as Don Camillo, while Prendergast, Ackland and Moffatt all continued to reprise their roles as Peppone, God and the Bishop respectively.
BBC Radio 7 BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7) is a British Digital radio in the United Kingdom, digital radio broadcasting, radio station from the BBC, broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a ...
broadcast the second and third series throughout August and September 2010 with the fourth series beginning on 6 October.


Television

In 1980, the
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produced the television series ''The Little World of Don Camillo'', based on the stories, starring Italian-German actor
Mario Adorf Mario Adorf (; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, am ...
as Don Camillo and Englishman
Brian Blessed Brian Blessed (; born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, presenter, writer and mountaineer. Blessed is known for portraying PC "Fancy" Smith in ''Z-Cars'', Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of ''I, Claudius'', King Richard IV i ...
as Peppone. The narrator and Voice of the Christ was
Cyril Cusack Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish stage and screen actor with a career that spanned more than 70 years. During his lifetime, he was considered one of Ireland’s finest thespians, and was renowned for his int ...
. In Colombia the stories were adapted into a TV comedy called ''Don Camilo''. The Italian Communist era was changed to a Colombian period called "La Violencia" when the Liberal and Conservative parties were fighting to maintain power in Colombia. The comedy was produced from 1987 to 1988 by the now defunct Coestrellas company and produced and directed by Daniel Samper Pizano and Bernando Romero Pereiro. The series starred Carlos Benjumea as Don Camillo (Don Camilo in Colombian Spanish), Hector Rivas as Peppone (Pepón in Colombian Spanish), Luis Fernando Múnera as The Christ Voice, and the actors Diego León Hoyos and Manuel Pachón as Peppone flunkies. The series was broadcast on Mondays at 10:00 pm by Cadena 2 (
Señal Institucional Canal Institucional is a Colombian public Terrestrial television channel launched on February 2, 2004 to replace Canal A after its merger with the programmer Audiovisuales. The television station broadcasts the sessions of the Congress of the ...
now) and rebroadcast by
Señal Colombia Señal Colombia is a Colombian public Terrestrial television, which offers opinion, informative, entertainment, educational, sports and cultural content and is part of RTVC Sistema de Medios Públicos. History Señal Colombia began its broadca ...
in 2011 and
Canal Uno Canal 1 ( en, Channel 1; pronounced "Canal Uno") is a Colombian state-owned television channel. It is owned by the Government of Colombia and managed by Plural Comunicaciones, S.A.S, a private company. From 1957 to 2017, the channel was administe ...
in 2014.


Thai novel

''The Little World of Don Camillo'' was adapted by the
Thai Thai or THAI may refer to: * Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia ** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand ** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand *** Thai script *** Thai (Unicode block ...
writer and politician
Kukrit Pramoj Mom Rajawongse Kukrit Pramoj ( th, คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช, , ; 20 April 1911 – 9 October 1995) was a Thai politician, scholar and professor. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Thailand 1973–1974. He was t ...
into his own 1954 novel, ''Phai Daeng'' (Red Bamboo).


See also

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Cinema of Italy The cinema of Italy (, ) comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. Italy is one of the birthplaces of art cinema and the stylistic aspect of film ...
*
Marcelino pan y vino ''Miracle of Marcelino'' ( es, Marcelino, pan y vino, "Marcelino, bread and wine") is a 1955 Spanish film written by José Maria Sanchez-Silva, based on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda. It starred, Juan Calvo (who also starred together ...
also features a talking crucifix *''
Monsignor Quixote ''Monsignor Quixote'' is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1982. The book is a pastiche of the classic 1605 and 1615 Spanish novel ''Don Quixote'' by Miguel de Cervantes with many moments of comedy, but also offers reflection on matters ...
'' (
Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...
novel about friendship between priest and Communist mayor) *''
Clochemerle ''Clochemerle'', published in the United States as ''The Scandals of Clochemerle'', is a French satirical novel by Gabriel Chevallier (1895–1969) first published in 1934. It centres on personal rivalries and local politics in the fictional ...
'' (1934)


References


Sources

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External links


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Don Camillo Don Camillo () and Peppone () 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 Cam ...
Don Camillo Don Camillo () and Peppone () 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 Cam ...
Don Camillo Don Camillo () and Peppone () 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 Cam ...
Films about Catholic priests