Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Luca Somigli (University of Toronto)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 22 Dec 1876
Died 2 Dec 1944
Activity 1896-1944

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet

Resources

Marinetti's Works

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Best known as the founder, main theorist, and overall impresario of the Futurist movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti enjoyed a literary career that spanned the first half of the twentieth century, during which he first practiced, then tried to demolish, all major literary genres – poetry, prose fiction, and drama – in an attempt to create a mode of writing that would better reflect the vitality of modern life and renovate Italian society by bridging the gap between art and life. In the process, he also became closely involved with Benito Mussolini’s Fascist dictatorship, and this, coupled with the bellicose and misogynistic rhetoric of many of his works, has made him to this day one of the most controversial figures in European modernism.

Marinetti was born on December 22nd, 1876, in

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Citation: Somigli, Luca. "Filippo Tommaso Marinetti". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 September 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2933, accessed 21 November 2024.]