Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (22 Dec 1876 – 2 Dec 1944) 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
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Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (22 Dec 1876 – 2 Dec 1944) 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 first Futurist Manifesto, which was written and published in 1909. The Futurist Manifesto was read and debated all across Europe. In 1911, the Italo-Turkish War began and Marinetti served in Libya as war correspondent for a French newspaper. His articles were eventually collected and published in The Battle of Tripoli. He then covered the First Balkan War of 1912–13, witnessing the surprise success of Bulgarian troops against the Ottoman Empire in the Siege of Adrianople. In this period he also made a number of visits to London, which he considered 'the Futurist city par excellence'.
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