Giovannino Guareschi, Il marito in collegio [A Husband in Boarding School]

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Published during World War II,

Il marito in collegio

[

A Husband in Boarding School

] is Giovannino Guareschi’s third collection of serialized fiction, and it sold well in a wartime market because, in part, many Italians had come to know of his comical strengths both through his two earlier novels —

La scoperta di Milano

[

The Discovery of Milan

] and

Il destino si chiama Coltilde

[

Duncan and Clotilda

] — and his editorship of the humorous weekly

Bertoldo

.

The narrative action of Il marito in collegio is set in the early part of the twentieth century. The Madellis-Food-Froulard-Wonder family, clinging haughtily to its ancestral exploits during the Crusades, has for some time been living on the kind financial support of a stuffy old uncle, Zio Casimiro, a wealthy businessman who has

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Citation: Perry, Alan. "Il marito in collegio". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 January 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32036, accessed 10 November 2024.]

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