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

Alan Perry (Gettysburg College)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1953

Places

Italy (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Prose Fiction Narrative

Resources

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, �…

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Citation: Perry, Alan. "Don Camillo e il suo gregge". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 October 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32042, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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