Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.
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Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.
Description
The path the life of Carnevali (1897-1942) took was unlike that of any other Italian American of his era.
Emigrating to the US in 1914, after odd jobs, he taught Italian to Joel Spingarn, a Columbia University comparative literature professor. Carnevali's rapid acquisition of English was unusual; his poetry in English was quickly published in the U.S.
After his debut published poem in 1918 in The Forum, Carnevali became a leading poetry figure in New York and then in Chicago, where he became an editor of Poetry magazine under the legendary Harriet Monroe, also in 1918.
In 1920, he became associate editor of Poetry.
His poetry appeared in 1934 in A History of American Poetry, along with that of Arturo Giovannitti, the other Italian American poet who had acquired English quickly and effortlessly.
His admirers and friends included Robert McAlmon, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Kay Boyle. Even after his final return to Italy in 1922 when ill, and his death not long after, his reviews were published in several venues.
As is evident, these letters were published long after his death. Gabriel Cacho Millet (1939-2016) was an Argentine writer who went to Europe as a correspondent for Latin American literature. He is credited not only with the "rediscovery" of Carnevali, but also a deeper appreciation of Jorge Luis Borges and Luigi Pirandello.
Besides an excerpt in Durante, see Kay Boyle, ed., The Autobiography of Emanuele Carnevali.
Emigrating to the US in 1914, after odd jobs, he taught Italian to Joel Spingarn, a Columbia University comparative literature professor. Carnevali's rapid acquisition of English was unusual; his poetry in English was quickly published in the U.S.
After his debut published poem in 1918 in The Forum, Carnevali became a leading poetry figure in New York and then in Chicago, where he became an editor of Poetry magazine under the legendary Harriet Monroe, also in 1918.
In 1920, he became associate editor of Poetry.
His poetry appeared in 1934 in A History of American Poetry, along with that of Arturo Giovannitti, the other Italian American poet who had acquired English quickly and effortlessly.
His admirers and friends included Robert McAlmon, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Kay Boyle. Even after his final return to Italy in 1922 when ill, and his death not long after, his reviews were published in several venues.
As is evident, these letters were published long after his death. Gabriel Cacho Millet (1939-2016) was an Argentine writer who went to Europe as a correspondent for Latin American literature. He is credited not only with the "rediscovery" of Carnevali, but also a deeper appreciation of Jorge Luis Borges and Luigi Pirandello.
Besides an excerpt in Durante, see Kay Boyle, ed., The Autobiography of Emanuele Carnevali.
Creator
Emanuel Carnevali
Gabriel Cacho Millet, ed.
Publisher
La Casa Usher
Date
1980
Format
21 x 13cm; 207 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Emanuel Carnevali and Gabriel Cacho Millet, ed., “Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed January 18, 2026, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/385.
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