Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani nel Nord America [Journalism of the Emigrant Italians in North America]. Chicago: Casa Editrice del giornale “L’Italia,” 1909.

Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani nel Nord America [Journalism of the Emigrant Italians in North America]. Chicago: Casa Editrice del giornale “L’Italia,” 1909.

Though himself a founder of a newspaper, Il Pensiero  [Thought] in 1904 in St. Louis, Carnovale denounces Italian American journalism in this work. In one of the newspaper articles collected here, Carnovale writes, p. 10, “this poor intellectual and moral organism – Italian American journalism – nothing but an ugly parasitical beast, a ‘filthy, fraudulent image invading the world with its stink.’ Everyone feels qualified to aim their darts (luckily, less poisonous than dirty) of backbiting, of the worst kind of slander, of the most ferocious persecution and the most vulgar scorn against it.”

Durante (94-96) has a fine though brief biography of Carnovale, with quotations from several of his works. Born in Calabria, Carnovale came to the U.S. in 1902. He used the newspapers for which he wrote to voice his anti-clerical opinions, as well as to express the frustrations of all Italian Americans seeking civil justice for their less fortunate expatriates.