FUTURISM (ITALIAN)

FUTURISM (ITALIAN) (1909). Italian Futurism began with the poet F. T. Marinetti publishing in, of all places, the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909 a manifesto that, in bombastically provocative language, proclaimed the birth of a new literary and social movement purportedly of the young. In what remains a masterpiece of manifesto writing (apart from its impact), Marinetti exalted movement and change, in addition to appealing to Italian pride. “Courage, audacity, and revolt will…