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Collection Overview
Title: Felix Giovanelli papers, 1925-1985![Add to your cart. Add to your cart.](themes/rbml/images/addtocart.gif)
Predominant Dates:1940-1970
ID: 01/01/MSS00015
Primary Creator: Giovanelli, Felix Bruno, (1913-)
Extent: 1.2 Cubic Feet
Languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish;Castilian
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Felix Giovanelli--including, amongst others, correspondence with T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. The collection also includes translations and literary criticisms by Felix and Margaret Giovanelli, newspaper clippings, and publications by various authors. Collection is a gift of the estate of Felix & Margaret Giovanelli and Mary Moss, executor of their estate.
Collection Historical Note
Felix Bruno Giovanelli (1913-1962) was born in Eveleth, Minnesota on January 2, 1913 and obtained B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. While attending the University of Illinois, Giovanelli was involved as a student officer at Newman Hall and later had an interest in Catholic novelists. Indeed, in 1939 he presented on "Modern Catholic Novelists" at the St. Louis University Lecture Forum. He obtained a professorship in French at Illinois until his transfer to St. Louis University as an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages in the late 1930s. He married Margaret Wixsom in Cook County, Illinois, December 31, 1936. In his 1940 draft registration card, Giovanelli is living at 3637 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri and working at St. Louis University. During World War II, Giovanelli spoke for the interests of Italian Americans and advocated for an Italian Legion "to fight against Mussolini and the Fascist regime" ("Free Italian Group Proposed in St. Louis"). In 1945, Giovanelli relocated to New York University, again as an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Giovanelli reviewed books for the New Leader and Italica and worked on novel translations for short stories and articles. He died of complications from cancer July 25, 1962. Margaret Wixsom Giovanelli died in 1997, and they are buried at Edgar Cemetery in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois.
Sources
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
"Felix Giovanelli, Educator, Was 49." The New York Times, Saturday, July 28, 1962.
"Free Italian Group Proposed in St. Louis." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11 January 1943.
"U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: University of Illinois; Year: 1935.
"150 Topics on St. L. U. Lecture Forum." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 26 November 1939.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 4: Margaret Giovanelli
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- Sub-series 1: Translations
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- Box 3
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- Folder 1: "The Good Leviathan" grouping (1/7)
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- Item 1: Giovanelli, Felix letter to Evelyn ?, undated
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- Folder 2: "The Good Leviathan" grouping (2/7)
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- Item 1: Rough Outline
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- 3 pages
- Folder 3: "The Good Leviathan" grouping (3/7)
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- Item 1: Translation of "The Good Leviathan" by Pierre Boulle (1/4), undated
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- Part One, pages 1-70
- Folder 4: "The Good Leviathan" grouping (4/7)
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- Item 1: Translation of "The Good Leviathan" by Pierre Boulle (2/4), undated
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- Part Two, pages 72-143
- Folder 5: "The Good Leviathan" grouping (5/7)
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- Item 1: Translation of "The Good Leviathan" by Pierre Boulle (3/4), undated
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- Part Three, pages 144-190
- Folder 6: "The Good Leviathan" grouping (6/7)
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- Item 1: Translation of "The Good Leviathan" by Pierre Boulle (4/4), undated
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- Part Four, pages 191-221
- Folder 7: "The Good Leviathan" grouping (/7)
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- Item 1: "The Good Leviathan '78" envelope, undated
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- Sub-series 2: Materials related to "Dongo 1945"
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- Box 3
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- Folder 8
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- Item 1: The Vanguard Press letter to Margaret Giovanelli, 1982
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- Item 2: photocopy of Italian government order, 1945, undated
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- Folder 9
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- Item 1: Photograph of Pedro, undated
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- Item 2: Photograph of bridge, undated
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- Item 3: Photograph the interior of the home of Maria room where Mussolini and Petacci were housed, undated
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- Item 4: Photograph of Dongo town hall square, undated
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- Item 5: Photograph of the home of Maria where Mussolini and Petacci spent the night, undated
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- Item 6: Photograph of the wall where Mussolini and Petacci were shot, undated
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- Folder 10
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- Item 1: "Dongo 1945" draft (1/5), undated
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- Pages 1-37
- Folder 11
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- Item 1: "Dongo 1945" draft (2/5), undated
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- Pages 38-95
- Folder 12
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- Item 1: "Dongo 1945" draft (3/5), undated
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- Pages 96-136
- Folder 13
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- Item 1: "Dongo 1945" draft (4/5), undated
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- Pages 137-177
- Folder 14
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- Item 1: "Dongo 1945" draft (5/5), undated
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- Pages 178-241
- Folder 15
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- Item 1: "From: Salvatore Attanasio" folder container, undated
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- Sub-series 3: Materials related to Wyndham Lewis
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- Box 3
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- Folder 16
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- Item 1: Fox, Cyril J. letter to Margaret Giovanelli, 1979
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- Encloses 1979 Enemy News newsletter
- Folder 17
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- Item 1: Fox, Cyril J. "The Times Literary Supplement" newspaper to Margaret Giovanelli, 1980
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- Includes handwritten notes by Cyril J. Fox
- Sub-series 4: Materials related to Marshall McLuhan
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- Box 3
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- Folder 18
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- Item 1: Gorham, Robert Davis book review of "The Interior Landscape: The Literary Cricitism of Marshall McLuhan" by Eugene McNamara from unknown newspaper, undated
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- Folder 19
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- Item 1: McLuhan, Corrine letter to Margaret Giovanelli, 1967
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- Item 2: "McLuhan wins Schweitzer award" article by unknown author from unknown newspaper, undated
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- Item 3: "McLuhan's daugher married" article by unknown author from Toronto Star, 1966
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- Item 4: "Mary Corinne McLuhan weds Thomas J. Colton" article by Gillian Robertson from The Telegram newspaper, 1966
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- Folder 20
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- Item 1: Hettwer, Dora Thea note to Margaret Giovanelli, 1967
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- Item 2: "Multimedia: Massaging Senses for the Message" by Grace Glueck from The New York Times, 1967
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- Folder 21
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- Item 1: Fox, Cyril J. The Observer magazine to Margaret Giovanelli, 1966
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- McLuhan on front cover
- Item 2: "TV: Experiment McLuhanizes Marshall McLuhan" by Jack Gould from The New York Times, 1967
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- Item 3: McLuhan, Corrine The Women's Telegram to Margaret Giovanelli, 1966
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- Includes handwritten message written on newspaper
- Item 4: Fox, Cyril J. mailing envelope for The Observer magazine, undated
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- Folder 22
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- Item 1: "M'Luhan Predicts Depression by 1972" newspaper clipping, undated
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- Item 2: "Marshall McLuhan: His Message Is Medium" article by Jerry Tallmer from New York Post, 1967
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- Item 3: Kitman, Marvin book review of "The Medium Is The Message" by Marshall McLuhan magazine clipping from The New York Times Book Review, 1967
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- Item 4: Handwritten list of books related to Marshall McLuhan, undated
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- Item 5: Handwritten notes on perspective, undated
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- Folder 23
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- Item 1: "Dr. McLuhan Is Coming to Fordham, or Is He?" newspaper clipping by Gene Currivan, undated
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- Item 2: "Why Do They Want to Get Away from Their Roots?" article by Donal Henahan, undated
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- Item 3: "McLuhan's Depression" newspaper clipping by Lawrence Laurent, undated
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- Item 4: The Times Literary Supplement, 1967
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- Folder 24
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- Item 1: "M'Luhan views Reshape Museum" newspaper clipping by John M. Lee, undated
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- Item 2: "Understanding McLuhan (In Part)" article by Richard Kostelanetz from the New York Times Magazine, 1967
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