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Some words about Futurism

"When Futurism appeared on the front page of the Figaro, on February 20 February, Europe is not shaken by any serious crisis. And few major works are born. Quite curiously, this year marked a pause in the creative effervescence of this beginning of century so fertile in innovations and scandals. It is a period of transition during which the creators draw the sum of the extraordinary acceleration of the ideas and the aesthetic approaches. To spread the idea of the futurist, Marinetti deploys an important editorial activity. He prints on the presses of his review and of his publishing house, both baptized Poesia, a translation in Italian of the inaugural text that entitled Fondazione e manifesto del futurismo. He publishes his second manifesto, Tuons le clear of the moon in the n° 7-8-9 of Poesia in April, then reproduces it in Italian in the poetic collection of his friend Paolo Buzzi. He also publishes the book of Gian Pietro Lucini, Revolverate, that he prefaces, that of Frederico De Maria, Le Leggenda della vita and the translation of D'annunzio intime, published in France in 1903. Finally he published the results of his published the results of his International Survey on free verse. In the meantime, the premiere of his play, The Roi Bombance, is presented on April 3 at the theater of the OEuvre. But none of these publications is futuristic in the full sense of the word. And the drama that Marinetti imagined is still impregnated of the symbolist spirit or of the one of Alfred Jarry. Futurism will have a semblance of existence that the following year, during the meeting of the first artists, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo and Carlo Carrà, who write in 1910 the Manifesto of the futurist painters, and the first futurist evenings. For the only sign of interest in his project is shown by V. Scattolini who founds the magazine Difesa dell'Arte in November, opening its pages widely to poets close to Marinetti; Corra, Chiti and Settimelli."

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