Autobiography emanuel carnevali italy

Italian-American writer

Emanuel Carnevali (December 4, 1897 - January 11, 1942) was an Italian-American writer. His body of work includes poetry, literary criticism, autobiography, and other prose writings.

Life

Manuel Federico Carlo Carnevali was born in Florence on 4 December 1897 at 11 via Montebello. His father was Tullio Carnevali (Lugo di Romagna, 1869), accountant-chief of the prefecture, and his mother was Matilde Piano (Turin, 1873).

Autobiography emanuel carnevali italy

Emanuel, Em or Manolo, as he was called, was born after his parents had separated. After a childhood spent in Pistoia, Biella and Cossato and after the death of his mother (1908), his father enrolled him in a boarding school after remarrying and going to live with his new family in Bologna.

In 1911 Emanuel won a scholarship from the Marco Foscarini College of Venice and spent almost two years there before being expelled. In 1913 he entered the Pier Crescenzi Technical Institute in Bologna, where he was a pupil of