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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de Créteil between 1907 and 1908. Marinetti is best known as the author of the Manifesto of Futurism, which was written and published in 1909, and as a co-author of the Fascist Manifesto, in 1919.
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culture · Italian poet (1876–1944) · poet · writer · playwright · composer · science fiction writer · photographer · designer · politician · translator · also Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, F. T. Marinetti, F.T. Marinetti, FT Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti, Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Born 22 December 1876 · Died 2 December 1944 · Q216582
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Формула войны (Formula of War)”.
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Released album “Формула Войны (Formula Of War) / Война Моторов (War Of Motors)”.
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2010· 1 entry
Moviefone: Le Mani - Omaggio a Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (2010) - Where to Watch
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1944· 3 entries
Died 1944-12-02.
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“Noi vogliamo distruggere i musei, le biblioteche, le accademie di ogni specie […].”
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L'aeropoema di Gesù ("The Aeropoem of Jesus") and Quarto d'ora di poesia per the X Mas ("A Fifteen Minutes' Poem of the tenth MAS"), Marinetti sought to reconcile his newfound love for God and his passion for the action
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1938· 1 entry
Hearing that Adolf Hitler wanted to include Futurism in a traveling exhibition of degenerate art, Marinetti persuaded Mussolini to refuse to let it enter Italy
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1929· 1 entry
Cappa and Marinetti collaborated on a genre of mixed-media assemblages in the mid-1920s they called tattilismo ("Tactilism"), and she was a strong proponent and practitioner of the aeropittura movement after its inception in 1929.
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1923· 2 entries
Marinetti married Benedetta Cappa (1897–1977), a writer and painter and a pupil of Giacomo Balla
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Said: "I declare that it is far from my idea to encourage anything like a state art
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1919· 1 entry
Co-wrote with Alceste De Ambris the Fascist Manifesto, the original manifesto of Italian Fascism
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1918· 1 entry
Moved in together in Rome, and chose to marry only to avoid legal complications on a lecture tour of Brazil
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1911· 1 entry
The Italo-Turkish War began, and Marinetti departed for Libya as a war correspondent for a French newspaper
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1910· 1 entry
His first novel, Mafarka il futurista, was cleared of all charges by an obscenity trial
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1909· 2 entries
“Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice”
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And as a co-author of the Fascist Manifesto, in 1919
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1908· 1 entry
After he veered into a ditch to avoid two cyclists
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1905· 1 entry
Was interrupted by loud, derisive whistling by the audience and by Marinetti himself, who thus introduced another element of Futurism, "the desire to be heckled"
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1894· 1 entry
At the Sorbonne University and in Italy, and graduated in law at the University of Pavia in 1899
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1876· 1 entry
Born 1876-12-22.
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1865· 1 entry
At the invitation of Khedive Isma'il Pasha to act as legal advisers for foreign companies that were taking part in his modernization program
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