abstract:Don Camillo is the main character created by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi (1908–68), and is based on the historical Roman Catholic priest, WW II partisan and detainee of the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen, Don Camillo Valota... Don Camillo is one of two protagonists, the other being the communist mayor of the town, known to everyone as Peppone.