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 1: Correspondence

Sub-series 1: General Correspondence

Box 1

Folder 1

Item 1: Brownels, Sonia letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Folder 2

Item 1: Connoly, Cyril letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1947

Folder 3

Item 1: Eliot, T. S. letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Item 2: Eliot, T. S. letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Folder 4

Item 1-2: Goldring, Douglas letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Item 3-4: Goldring, Douglas letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Folder 5

Item 1: Joyce, Stanislaus letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1929

Folder 6

Item 1-3: Kenner, Hugh letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Item 4-5: Kenner, Hugh letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Folder 7: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (1/11)

Item 1-5: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1943

Item 6-12: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1944

Folder 8: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (2/11)

Item 1: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letter to Wyndham Lewis, 1945

Item 2: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letter to Wyndham Lewis, 1946

Item 3-5: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1947

Folder 9: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (3/11)

Item 1: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letter to Wyndham Lewis, 1948

Includes Evening Standard April 30, 1938 newspaper clipping

Item 2-8: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1948

Folder 10: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (4/11)

Item 1-5: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1948

Folder 11: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (5/11)

Item 1-11: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1948

Folder 12: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (6/11)

Item 1-6: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1948

Folder 13: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (7/11)

Item 1-7: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1949

Folder 14: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (8/11)

Item 1-8: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1949

Folder 15: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (9/11)

Item 1-5: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1949

Item 6-9: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, 1950

Item 10: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letter to Wyndham Lewis, 1951

Folder 16: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (10/11)

Item 1-7: Giovanelli, Felix photocopied letters to Wyndham Lewis, undated

Folder 17: "Copies Felix to Lewis" grouping (11/11)

Item 1: "Copies Felix to Lewis" container, undated

Folder 18

Item 1: Lewis, Wyndham letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1941

Item 2: Lewis, Wyndham letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1947

Folder 19: "Lewis to Felix" grouping (1/6)

Item 1-3: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1946

Item 4-7: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1947

Folder 20: "Lewis to Felix" grouping (2/6)

Item 1-12: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Folder 21: "Lewis to Felix" grouping (3/6)

Item 1-10: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Folder 22: "Lewis to Felix" grouping (4/6)

Item 1-11: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Folder 23: "Lewis to Felix" grouping (5/6)

Item 1-2: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Item 3-4: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1950

Item 4-7: Lewis, Wyndham photocopied letters to Felix Giovanelli, undated

Folder 24: "Lewis to Felix" grouping

Item 1: "Lewis to Felix" container, undated

Folder 25

Item 1: Nestor letter to Felix Giovanelli, undated

Folder 26

Item 1-3: Pound, Ezra letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Item 4-7: Pound, Ezra letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Folder 27

Item 1-11: Pound, Ezra letters to Felix Giovanelli, undated

Folder 28

Item 1-7: Pound, Ezra letters to Felix Giovanelli

Folder 29

Item 1-4: Ezra, Pound and Dorothy Pound letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Item 5-6: Ezra, Pound and Dorothy Pound letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Item 7-11: Ezra, Pound and Dorothy Pound letters to Felix Giovanelli, undated

Folder 30

Item 1: Pound, Dorothy letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Item 2-6: Pound, Dorothy letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Folder 31

Item 1-11: Pound, Dorothy letters to Felix Giovanelli, undated

Folder 32

Item 1: Sender, Ramon J. letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1946

Item 2: Sender, Ramon J. letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Item 3-6: Sender, Ramon J. letters to Felix Giovanelli, undated

Folder 33

Item 1: Tate, Allen letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1949

Folder 34

Item 1: Degli Uberti, Riccardo M. letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1948

Folder 35

Item 1-10: Williams, Denis letters to Felix Giovanelli

Folder 36

Item 1: Kendall, Willmoore letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1941

Item 2-3: Kendall, Willmoore letters to Felix Giovanelli, 1942

Item 4: Kendall, Willmoore letter to Felix Giovanelli, 1943

Item 5-6: Kendall, Willmoore letters to Felix Giovanelli, undated

Folder 37

Item 1: Letter by unknown, 1948

An Italian letter in support of Ezra Pound during his imprisonment in the United States. The letter states that during Pound's time in Italy he did not engage in any fascist or anti-semetic activity but that his time was focused solely on artistic and cultural pursuits.

Sub-series 2: Third Party Correspondence

Box 1

Folder 38

Item 1: Ford, Madox Ford letter to Douglas Goldring, 1932

Folder 39

Item 1-2: Lewis, Wyndham letters to Denis Williams, 1949