Felix Giovanelli papers, 1925-1985 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Felix Giovanelli papers, 1925-1985

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

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

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"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.

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Box and Folder Listing

Series 5: Published Works by Others

Sub-series 1: Publications by Author

Box 3

Folder 25

Item 1: "The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography for the Year 1941" by Walter Graham from A Journal of English Literary History (Vol.9, No. 1), 1942

Item 2: "The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography for the Year 1941" by Walter Graham from A Journal of English Literary History (Vol.9, No. 1), 1942

Folder 26

Item 1: Kenner, Hugh book review of "America and Cosmic Man" by Wyndham Lewis, undated

Folder 27

Item 1: "M'Luhan Weighs Aimless Violence" newspaper clipping by John Leo, undated

Folder 28

Item 1: "Raiz y trascendencia del anarquismo espanol" by Jose Gonzalez Malo, undated

Box 4

Folder 1

Item 1: "Aesthetic Pattern in Keat's Odes" by Herbert Marshall McLuhan, 1943

Item is inscribed by McLuhan to Felix Giovanelli

Item 2: "Edgar Poe's Tradition" by Herbert Marshall McLuhan from The Sewanee Review, 1944

Item 3: "Kipling and Forster" by Herbert Marshall McLuhan from The Sewanee Review, 1944

Item 4: "An Ancient Quarrel in Modern America" by Marshall McLuhan from The Classical Journal, 1946

Item 5: "Breakdown as Breakthrough: An Inventory" by Marshall McLuhan, 1969

Folder 2

Item 1: "Counterblast" by Marshall McLuhan, 1954

Item inscribed by McLuhan to Margaret and Felix Giovanelli

Item 2: "Counterblast" by Marshall McLuhan, 1954

Handwritten note "from Mac whodunit" by Giovanelli

Item 3-7: "Counterblast" by Marshall McLuhan, 1954

4 copies

Folder 3

Item 1: "Anatole France" by Regis Michaud, 1925

Folder 4

Item 1: "Petrarch's Prestige as a Humanist" by Revilo P. Oliver, 1943

Item is inscribed by Oliver to Felix Giovanelli

Item 2: "The Satires of Filelfo" by Revilo P. Oliver, 1949

Item is inscribed by Oliver to Felix Giovanelli

Folder 5

Item 1: "Marshall McLuhan: Canada's Intellectual Comet" by Richard Schickel from Harper's magazine, 1965

Found in "Old Mc" envelope

Folder 6

Item 1: Sherman, Thomas newspaper clipping of book review of "The Sphere" by Ramon J. Sender from St. Louis Post-Dispatch, undated

Folder 7

Item 1: "Croce and the Nature of Economic Science" by Giorgio Tagliacozzo, 1945

Sub-series 2: Publications by Title

Item 2: Espana Libre newspaper, 1969

includes "Homenaje a Sender en Los Angeles" article by unknown author, regarding Ramon J. Sender

Box 4

Folder 8

Item 1: "Arts Canada" magazine, 1967

Includes "Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press" by Sheila Watson

Folder 9

Item 1: Belle Arti: Rivista Bimestrale D'Arte pamphlet, 1946

Encloses Nistri-Lischi (editor) letter to "Sir"

Folder 10

Item 1: "Ciba Symposia" magazine, 1944, 1945

Item inscribed by Wolfgang Born to Felix and Margaret Giovanelli

Item 2: "Ciba Symposia" magazine, 1946

Item 3: "Ciba Symposia" magazine, 1948

Item inscribed by Wolfgang Born to Felix Giovanelli

Folder 11

Item 1: "A Survey of Language Classes in the Army Specialized Training Program" by Frederick B. Agard, Robert J. Clements, William S. Hendrix, Elton Hocking, Stephen L. Pitcher, Albert Van Eerden, and Henry Grattan Doyle, 1944

Folder 12

Item 1: Delta magazine, 1963

Includes Dudek, Louis "Interview with Ezra Pound"

Folder 13

Item 1: "Jesus Gonzalez Malo" newspaper clipping by unknown from Espana Libre, 1966

Item 2: Espana Libre newspaper, 1969

Includes "Homenaje a Sender en Los Angeles" article regarding Ramon J. Sender

Folder 14

Item 1: Instead magazine, 1948

Item 2-3: Instead magazine, undated

Folder 15

Item 1: The Hudson Review journal, 1950

Includes by writings by Stanislaus Joyce, William Epson, Susanne K. Langer, Paul Valery, Stanley Edgar Hyman, R.W. B. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Barbara Gibbs, W. S. Merwin, George Barbarow, Anatole Broyard, William Troy, and Vernon Young

Folder 16

Item 1: The Jesuit magazine, 1968

Folder 17

Item 1: Lettres et Ecritures journal, 1963

Folder 18

Item 1: "The Lewisletter" newsletter, 1978

Includes handwritten note by Cy (Cyril J.) Fox

Folder 19

Item 1: The London Magazine, 1963

Folder 20

Item 1: Parti Pris journal, 1964

Folder 21

Item 1: Ezra Pound advertisement for pamphlets published by Peter Russell, undated

Folder 22

Item 1: St. Louis University journal, 1944

Includes "Lewis" article by Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Folder 23

Item 1: View magazine, 1946

Item 2: View magazine, 1946

Item 3: View magazine, 1946

Sub-series 3: Exhibition Catalogues

Box 4

Folder 24

Item 1: "Wyndham Lewis: The Early Decades" exhibition catalogue, 1985

Exhibition at Washburn Gallery in New York City

Folder 25

Item 1: "Matta" exhibition catalogue, 1947

Exhibition by Robert Matta at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City