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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
Access Restrictions:
Open to researchers.
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Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Correspondence],
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Series 3: Mixed Materials],
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Series 4: Margaret Giovanelli],
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Series 6: Oversize Materials],
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- Series 5: Published Works by Others
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- Sub-series 1: Publications by Author
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- Box 3
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- Folder 25
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- 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
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- 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
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- Folder 26
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- Item 1: Kenner, Hugh book review of "America and Cosmic Man" by Wyndham Lewis, undated
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- Folder 27
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- Item 1: "M'Luhan Weighs Aimless Violence" newspaper clipping by John Leo, undated
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- Folder 28
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- Item 1: "Raiz y trascendencia del anarquismo espanol" by Jose Gonzalez Malo, undated
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- Box 4
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- Folder 1
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- Item 1: "Aesthetic Pattern in Keat's Odes" by Herbert Marshall McLuhan, 1943
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- Item is inscribed by McLuhan to Felix Giovanelli
- Item 2: "Edgar Poe's Tradition" by Herbert Marshall McLuhan from The Sewanee Review, 1944
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- Item 3: "Kipling and Forster" by Herbert Marshall McLuhan from The Sewanee Review, 1944
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- Item 4: "An Ancient Quarrel in Modern America" by Marshall McLuhan from The Classical Journal, 1946
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- Item 5: "Breakdown as Breakthrough: An Inventory" by Marshall McLuhan, 1969
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- Folder 2
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- Item 1: "Counterblast" by Marshall McLuhan, 1954
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- Item inscribed by McLuhan to Margaret and Felix Giovanelli
- Item 2: "Counterblast" by Marshall McLuhan, 1954
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- Handwritten note "from Mac whodunit" by Giovanelli
- Item 3-7: "Counterblast" by Marshall McLuhan, 1954
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- 4 copies
- Folder 3
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- Item 1: "Anatole France" by Regis Michaud, 1925
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- Folder 4
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- Item 1: "Petrarch's Prestige as a Humanist" by Revilo P. Oliver, 1943
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- Item is inscribed by Oliver to Felix Giovanelli
- Item 2: "The Satires of Filelfo" by Revilo P. Oliver, 1949
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- Item is inscribed by Oliver to Felix Giovanelli
- Folder 5
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- Item 1: "Marshall McLuhan: Canada's Intellectual Comet" by Richard Schickel from Harper's magazine, 1965
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- Found in "Old Mc" envelope
- Folder 6
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- Item 1: Sherman, Thomas newspaper clipping of book review of "The Sphere" by Ramon J. Sender from St. Louis Post-Dispatch, undated
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- Folder 7
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- Item 1: "Croce and the Nature of Economic Science" by Giorgio Tagliacozzo, 1945
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- Sub-series 2: Publications by Title
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- Item 2: Espana Libre newspaper, 1969
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- includes "Homenaje a Sender en Los Angeles" article by unknown author, regarding Ramon J. Sender
- Box 4
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- Folder 8
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- Item 1: "Arts Canada" magazine, 1967
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- Includes "Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press" by Sheila Watson
- Folder 9
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- Item 1: Belle Arti: Rivista Bimestrale D'Arte pamphlet, 1946
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- Encloses Nistri-Lischi (editor) letter to "Sir"
- Folder 10
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- Item 1: "Ciba Symposia" magazine, 1944, 1945
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- Item inscribed by Wolfgang Born to Felix and Margaret Giovanelli
- Item 2: "Ciba Symposia" magazine, 1946
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- Item 3: "Ciba Symposia" magazine, 1948
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- Item inscribed by Wolfgang Born to Felix Giovanelli
- Folder 11
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- 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
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- Folder 12
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- Item 1: Delta magazine, 1963
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- Includes Dudek, Louis "Interview with Ezra Pound"
- Folder 13
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- Item 1: "Jesus Gonzalez Malo" newspaper clipping by unknown from Espana Libre, 1966
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- Item 2: Espana Libre newspaper, 1969
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- Includes "Homenaje a Sender en Los Angeles" article regarding Ramon J. Sender
- Folder 14
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- Item 1: Instead magazine, 1948
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- Item 2-3: Instead magazine, undated
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- Folder 15
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- Item 1: The Hudson Review journal, 1950
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- 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
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- Item 1: The Jesuit magazine, 1968
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- Folder 17
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- Item 1: Lettres et Ecritures journal, 1963
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- Folder 18
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- Item 1: "The Lewisletter" newsletter, 1978
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- Includes handwritten note by Cy (Cyril J.) Fox
- Folder 19
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- Item 1: The London Magazine, 1963
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- Folder 20
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- Item 1: Parti Pris journal, 1964
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- Folder 21
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- Item 1: Ezra Pound advertisement for pamphlets published by Peter Russell, undated
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- Folder 22
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- Item 1: St. Louis University journal, 1944
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- Includes "Lewis" article by Herbert Marshall McLuhan
- Folder 23
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- Item 1: View magazine, 1946
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- Item 2: View magazine, 1946
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- Item 3: View magazine, 1946
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- Sub-series 3: Exhibition Catalogues
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- Box 4
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- Folder 24
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- Item 1: "Wyndham Lewis: The Early Decades" exhibition catalogue, 1985
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- Exhibition at Washburn Gallery in New York City
- Folder 25
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- Item 1: "Matta" exhibition catalogue, 1947
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- Exhibition by Robert Matta at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City
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