ML
met Italian Futurists Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
and Giovanni Papini
in Florence.
Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
153-4
Family and Intimate relationships
Mina Loy
It was during this trip to Rome that ML
and Marinetti
began an affair. The relationship ended by August with the beginning of World War I.
Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
171-4
She was deeply troubled by Marinetti's misogyny, but...
Textual Features
Mina Loy
The first of these three poems, One O'Clock at Night, draws on ML
's relationship with Marinetti
to offer a cynical analysis of the relationship between male intellectuals and their female companions. The female...
Timeline
20 February 1909: F. T. Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism,...
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20 February 1909
F. T. Marinetti
's Founding Manifesto of Futurism, declaring the Futurists' intent to destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, was published on the front page of Le Figaro,
Fisher, Mark. “Objections to the Object”. Times Literary Supplement, 22 Mar. 2002, pp. 13-14.
14
April 1910: F. T. Marinetti, leader of the Futurist movement...
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April 1910
F. T. Marinetti
, leader of the Futurist movement in Italy, made his first appearance in England at the Lyceum Club
in London to promote the Futurist doctrine of revolution and violence in art.
Wees, William C. Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde. University of Toronto Press, 1972.
12, 14, 92
November 1913: Thirty guests in a London restaurant paid...
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November 1913
Thirty guests in a London restaurant paid to hear the Italian Futurist Marinetti
recite, with various kinds of onomatopoeic noises and crashes in free verse.
Laity, Paul. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2000, pp. 40-1.