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/MSS00015

Primary Creator: Giovanelli, Felix Bruno (1913-1962)

Extent: 1.2 Cubic Feet

Languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish;Castilian

The Felix Giovanelli papers consist primarily of correspondence by Felix Giovanelli (1913-1962), an Italian-American educator and translator. Notable correspondents include T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Wyndham Lewis. The collection also includes translations and literary criticisms by Giovanelli and his wife, Margaret (1915-1997), as well as newspaper clippings and publications by various authors.

Felix Bruno Giovanelli was born on January 2, 1913, in Eveleth, MN. He was the son of Italian immigrants; his father, Miliano Giovanelli (circa 1882-?), was a coal miner. Giovanelli attended the University of Illinois, where he earned a BA, MA, and PhD, and fostered an interest in Catholic novelists. He presented on "Modern Catholic Novelists" at the St. Louis University Lecture Forum in 1939.

In 1940, Giovanelli began working at St. Louis University as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, having a background in French. 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." He relocated to New York in 1945, joining the faculty of New York University. Giovanelli also reviewed books for The New Leader and Italica, and served as a translator of French, Spanish, German, and Italian novels, short stories, and articles for The New Leader, The Saturday Review, and The Reporter.

Giovanelli married Wargaret Wixsom (1915-1997) on December 31, 1936. He died of complications from cancer in 1962 and is buried in Paris, IL.

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Acquisition Source: This collection was a gift to the Library by the estate of Felix & Margaret Giovanelli and Mary Moss, executor of their estate.

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Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Writings],
[Series 3: Mixed Materials],
[Series 4: Margaret Giovanelli],
[Series 5: Published Works by Others],
[Series 6: Oversize Materials],
[All]

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

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Writings],
[Series 3: Mixed Materials],
[Series 4: Margaret Giovanelli],
[Series 5: Published Works by Others],
[Series 6: Oversize Materials],
[All]