Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Standard Name: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mina Loy
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, declaring the Futurists' intent to destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, was published on the front page of Le Figaro,
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.
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.