Giovannino guareschi biography of donald

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    Don Camillo and Peppone

    Fictional characters

    Don Camillo (pronounced[ˈdɔŋkaˈmillo]) 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.

    Don Camillo is a parish priest and is said to have been inspired by 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).[1][2] Guareschi was also inspired by Don Alessandro Parenti, a priest o

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    The Little Blog of Don Camillo

    First, let me welcome a few readers who have recently funnen and commented on some of my earlier posts. Second, inom should apologize for the long gap between my previous update and this one–I hit the busy season at work and somehow managed to let Giovannino Guareschi’s 104th birthday pass without noting it here! By way of compensation, I’ll devote this post and the next to the GG biography from my old Don Camillo site. Enjoy!  

    Giovannino Guareschi: Early years
    Born on May 1, 1908 in the Northern Italian village of Fontanelle di Roccabianca, Giovannino Guareschi was the son of a schoolteacher mother and an entrepreneur father. One has to smile at the fact that this child who would grow up to become such a well-known opponent of the Left should have made his debut on a May Day. Indeed, as Winthrop Sargeant recounts in a 1952 Life magazine feature on the author:

    “At the time when [Giovannino] first saw the light

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    Giovannino Guareschi

    Italian journalist, cartoonist, and humorist (1908–1968)

    Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (Italian:[dʒovanˈniːnoɡwaˈreski]; 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

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    Guareschi was born into a middle-class family in Fontanelle di Roccabianca, in the 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 was the chief editor of a similar magazine called Bertoldo.[1]

    In 1943, Guareschi was drafted into the ar

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