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Died. Giovanni Guareschi, 60, Italy's most popular political humorist, whose tales of Don Camillo, a village priest forever at swordspoint with his Red mayor, gave readers throughout the world a taste of Communism, Italian style; of a heart attack; in Cervia, Italy. With gentle wit and nimble satire, in five novels, Guareschi illuminated a curiously Italian phenomenon-the Catholic who prays in church but pays his dues to the Party-all to the delight of readers in 16 languages...
...your story on the resignation of Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Italy [Dec. 3], the monarchist (but emphatically not fascist) press has indeed commented upon her departure. The monarchist magazine Candido, edited by Giovanni Guareschi (creator of The Little World of Don Camillo), said...
After a stretch in a Parma jail, Italy's serious-minded Humorist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camilla) Guareschi, sentenced to twelve months for libeling the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, was sprung conditionally, time off for good behavior. Matter of principle: given a chance to ask for a cut in his sentence last October, Prisoner Guareschi, in no mood for apologies or parole pleas, politely declined the opening, doggedly stuck to his cell...
...country of lively anticlericalism. Marxist polemics and half-empty churches, France has some surprising reading tastes. The bestseller of the last ten years, reports the current issue of Les Nouvelles Litteraire, is The Little World of Don Camillo,* Italian Author Giovanni Guareschi's famed series of stories about the saintly deviltries of Village Priest Don Camillo in his running war with Communist Mayor Peppone. One reason for the book's popularity may be that, while to U.S. readers such shenanigans are amusingly exotic, to Frenchmen they are amusingly, and often disturbingly, familiar. There is, for instance, the case...
...Guareschi accused De Gasperi of having urged the Allies during World War II to bomb Rome...