This page pretty much gives everything I can find online concerning Guareschi and Don Camillo (including, perhaps, a few items already linked elsewhere at this site). In the "English" and "Italian" sections, the ones I think are the better sites are listed first; in the "Other" section, sites are grouped by language. And, since the languages I speak or read (other than English) are generally not languages in which there exist sites devoted to Guareschi, I have been dependent on others to make sense of the foreign- language sites listed below.

Oh, and if you want a chuckle, try running one of the foreign language sites through AltaVista's "Babel Fish" translator. It'll ask you for the URL of the site you want translated (or you can copy in some actual text); then sit back and watch the fun.

ALL LINKS WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW.

In English:

• If I'd found Vajrang Parvate's The Little World of Giovanni Guareschi before I had done most of the work to create my original Don Camillo site, I'd probably simply have included a link to his site on my personal homepage and been done with it. Since I didn't, the Web now has us both. With the blessing of the author's heirs, Vajrang is in the process of putting online all of the English translations of the Don Camillo stories, along with The House that Nino Built. In addition, he's scanned in all of the little drawings accompanying the stories, and he also includes some Guareschi photos at his very thorough site. Further kudos to Vajrang for working so hard to establish an on-line network of English-speaking fans of Don Camillo and his creator (you can sign onto the "fan directory" at his site, as well as join the "Don Camillo Mailing List").
• And I suppose I should include here a link to my other Don Camillo site, the companion to this one. "The Don Camillo Galleries" is home to drawings and photos (just too many to fit at this site) associated with GG and Don Camillo. Whether you're interested in seeing some of Guareschi's anti-Communist cartoons for Candido, or just want to see a vintage photo of the author as a child, it's the place to look.
• Here is another bio. in English, located at a Finnish regional library's website. It's quite thorough. [Thanks, Vesa Lehtinen, for pointing me there!]
• Here's a site devoted to GG's "non-Camillo" books in English translation. Includes excerpts from the family stories, two comic novels, and the wartime writings. [And if the contact information there looks familiar, it's because this is another of my sites.]
• Click here to see a photo and read a much briefer bio. of Guareschi in English. It's part of the English- language version of the homesite of Parma, Italy-- GG's birthplace-- and it amounts to a translation of the fifth-bulleted item in my list of Italian links below.
• The only other things I have on Guareschi in English are his IMDB bio. & filmography and his tiny entry at the A&E Biography site.
• Finally, this isn't actually a Guareschi or Don Camillo website; in fact, it's a real oddity, but too funny to omit mentioning. And what is it? Why, the only "Don Camillo" pastiche I've ever read, that's what ... but it's not a serious one. Though the by-line reads "Mario Povalley," the author is actually one Robin Parkinson, of satirical "Trout Magazine." [And there are some other funny pieces in this British e-zine's archives, if you've time to look.].

In Italian:

• The domain www.giovanninoguareschi.com belongs to the Club dei 23 (the official Guareschi organization in Italy), and they've put up something really neat: a detailed Guareschi biography, organized by years on a series of linked pages, and illustrated with his drawings. There's a cool animated graphic on the welcome page, and a link there to me! [I'm "L'amica americana."]
  [Click here to go straight to the section about the Club dei Ventitre itself, on some fairly recently updated pages describing its mission and work.]
• Fan Matteo Castelli's page is a well-designed, comprehensive tribute to GG that I really wish I could read!
• Here's a nice little site on the films. I have tried to contact the author, but so far without success.
• And then there's this page, belonging to fan Enrico Piralli.
• And here's a photo and brief Guareschi bio. at what appears to be the website of his birthplace, Parma, Italy. [The English- translation version of this piece is at my fifth-bulleted "In English" link, above.]
• An excerpt from an interview with Guareschi's son and daughter in Il Giornale, 16 February 1996 (Mauro Fresco is the credited interviewer).
• Here's a sweet photo of Guareschi and his children, at the website of the Italian photographer who took it.
• Finally, I've marked this page because it says it's the future site of another fan's GG page.  Right now (June, 2002), though, there's nothing there.

Other:

• Frank Schmelzer's Guareschi site pays special attention to the Don Camillo films starring Fernandel. It's in German, but he also provides English translations of his pages.
• Don Camillo in Turkish? It would seem to be the case. The host for this page on Guareschi, and this one on Don Camillo, is "ada.com.tr," which I believe indicates Turkey. But I would be lying outright if I said I recognized the look of the printed language as Turkish or anything else. Perhaps I have a reader who can tell us what the page says. And then, perhaps that reader could enlighten us about this other Turkish aritcle, at the same site and by the same person, which appears to be about someone else but which mentions GG and Don Camillo a few times.
• Who'd have predicted it: another Turkish website about Don Camillo! This one compares Guareschi's creation with another character called "Ofli Hodja."
• Yet another Turkish tribute to Guareschi and his work.
• And here are two Don Camillo stories in Polish (I think): "Wyznany grzech" and "Braciszek" (help, anyone?).

And a final note: If you visit a search engine and ask it to scour the Web for the string "Don Camillo," you may be surprised to find your returns dominated not by literature-related pages, but by the websites of various restaurants bearing the name of Guareschi's big priest. Then there's that winery, and even a motorcycle club named after our hero and his Communist cohort. Click here for links to these establishments.