That'd be "The House that Nino Built", I think - only a few of the stories from that are online on The Little World of Giovanni Guareschi.   Put online by a young man in India - so it's not such a little world, in one sense anyaway.

There are two sorts of people - those who love Giovanni Guareschi, and his Don Camollo and Peppone, and people who have never heard of them.