Don Camillo statue in Don Camillo is a character created by the Italian writer and journalist, whose name, and some of his character, is based on an actual priest, partisan and detainee at the concentration camps of and, named Don Camillo Valota (1912–1998). Telecharger Serial Founder 2011 Dodge here. Guareschi was also inspired by Don Alessandro Parenti, a priest of, near the Swiss border. The fictional Don Camillo is one of two main protagonists of Guareschi's short stories, the other being the communist mayor of the town, Peppone. The stories are 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: Mondo piccolo) 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 played by In the post-war years (after 1945), Camillo Tarocci (his full name, which he rarely uses) is the hotheaded priest of a small town in the in northern. Don Camillo is a big man, tall and strong with hard fists. For the films, the town chosen to represent that of the books was (which currently has a museum dedicated to Don Camillo and Peppone) after the production of movies based on Guareschi's tales, but in the first story Don Camillo is introduced as the parish priest of Ponteratto.