05 December 2013, The Tablet

Camillo comeback


 
Don Camillo, the ever-popular parish priest whose sparring with the local Communist mayor, Peppone, and other adventures in rural post-Second World War Italy has enchanted millions, is set for a comeback.Despite numerous dramatisations on BBC radio, little more than a third of all the Don Camillo stories written by Giovanni Guareschi have been translated into English. But that is about to change.According to Piers Dudgeon of new publishers Pilot Productions, only 132 out of a total of 347 stori
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