Giovannino Guareschi, Don Camillo e il suo gregge [Don Camillo and His Flock]

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Five years after the enormous editorial success of

Don Camillo

(1948), Giovannino Guareschi compiled another forty-nine

Mondo piccolo

tales in

Don Camillo e il suo gregge

(1953), the second anthology in the series. In 1963 Guareschi published

Il compagno don Camillo

[

Comrade Don Camillo

], and in 1969, a year after Guareschi’s death, the publishing firm Rizzoli released

Don Camillo e i giovani d’oggi

[

Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children

], an incomplete volume further elaborated and issued again in 1996 as

Don Camillo e don Chichì

[

Don Camillo and Don Chichì

].

Guareschi linked Don Camillo e il suo gregge to his first collection with an important preface, “Qui si spiega, in quattro parole, come sono nati don Camillo e Peppone e come continuano a vivere” [“Here, in Four Words, It

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Citation: Perry, Alan. "Don Camillo e il suo gregge". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 October 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32042, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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