The degree of "glorification" rather depends on what country you're from. Here in Britain the North African campaign has been written about a good deal- it being the first real British and Empire victory of the war. I suspect it's similar in France, because of the Free French involvement in battles like Bir Hakeim (they named a Metro station in Paris after that after all).

Conversely, the British don't focus so much on the Pacific, in the sense of Guadalcanal, Kwajalein, Iwo Jima etc as Americans do because they were only very peripherally involved after the fall of Singapore. Australians though remember the New Guinea campaign that Brits or Americans rarely talk about- it all depends on your country's involvement in any particular campaign.

Returning to North Africa and Italy, North Africa was when you consider the numbers of troops involved much less important than the North West Europe campaign let alone the Eastern Front so you can understand its relative neglect. Italy was bigger in scale, but you're right it doesn't get the attention that NW Europe does. If I may risk the wrath of the mods and speculate a little, I'd suggest this is due to the nature of the campaign after the fall of Rome in June 1944 when it became a long hard slog up the peninsula. There was nothing like Patton's advance through France, or the Battle of the Bulge, just hard attritional fighting.