When the Italian futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti visited London in 1910, as part of a series of well-publicised lectures aimed at galvanizing support across Europe for the new Italian avant-garde, his presentation at the Lyceum Club, in which he addressed his audience as " victims of .... traditionalism and its medieval trappings ," electrified the assembled avant-garde.

In 1914, personal quarrels and artistic differences between the Milan group, around Marinetti, Boccioni, and Balla, and the Florence group, around Carrà, Ardengo Soffici ( 1879 – 1964 ) and Giovanni Papini ( 1881 – 1956 ), created a rift in Italian Futurism.

They acknowledged no authority and professed not to owe anything even to Marinetti, whose principles they had earlier adopted, obstructing him when he came to Russia to proselytize in 1914.

Russolo and Marinetti gave the first concert of Futurist music, complete with intonarumori, in 1914.

Other composers offered more melodic variants of Futurist music, notably Franco Casavola, who was active with the movement at the invitation of Marinetti between 1924 and 1927, and Arthur-Vincent Lourié, the first Russian Futurist musician, and a signatory of the St Petersburg Futurist Manifesto in 1914.

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The publication of the English Futurist manifesto Vital English Art, in June 1914 edition of The Observer, co-written by Marinetti and the " last remaining English Futurist " C. R. W. Nevinson, Lewis found his name, among others, had been added as a signatory at the end of the article without permission, in an attempt to assimilate the English avant-garde for Marinetti's own ends.

Marinetti promoted his ideas by continually travelling across Europe giving recitations ; as well as giving ' riotous soirées ' throughout Italy, he travelled to Russia in 1910 and 1913, Paris 1912 and 1914, Berlin and Brussels in 1912, and London in 1911, 1912 and 1914.

Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".

Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell ' Emilia, an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.

Publishing manifestos was a feature of Futurism, and the Futurists ( usually led or prompted by Marinetti ) wrote them on many topics, including painting, architecture, religion, clothing and cooking.

" Mussolini's mistress, Margherita Sarfatti, who was as able a cultural entrepreneur as Marinetti, successfully promoted the rival Novecento group, and even persuaded Marinetti to sit on its board.

The Futurist Manifesto, written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, was published in the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell ' Emilia in Bologna on 5 February 1909, then in French as " Manifeste du futurisme " in the newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.

Another immediate source of inspiration for his attitude on life was provided by Futurism, an anti-establishment movement created in Italy by poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and his artists ' circle.

On 12 June, during recitations of this manifesto and a performance by Marinetti of his poem The Battle of Adrianople, with Nevinson accompanying on drums, Lewis, T. E. Hulme, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Edward Wadsworth, and five others roundly interrupted the performance with jeering and shouting.

Futurism was first announced on Feb. 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

It was a periodical of a luxurious kind, each issue printed on several sorts of deluxe paper, with contributions by well-known authors, like Colette, Henry Gauthier-Villars, Laurent Tailhade, Josephin Peladan, Marcel Boulestin, Maxim Gorky, Georges Eekhoud, Achille Essebac, Claude Farrère, Anatole France, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Henri Barbusse, Jean Moréas and Arthur Symons.

It was on a 1913 trip to Florence that he discovered a copy of the paper Lacerba and an article by one of the founders of the futurism movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ) and later the co-author of the Fascist Manifesto ( 1919 ).

Futurism that was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who founded the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.

In 1919, Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti created The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat ( a. k. a. the Fascist Manifesto ).

The Manifesto that was written by national syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and Futurist movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

The gap between the Imagist and Futurist groups was defined partly by Aldington's critical disapproval of the poetry of Filippo Marinetti.

It was not until 1917, after meeting with Giacomo Balla in Rome, and with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Naples ( who later enthusiastically praised Conti's book Imbottigliature which was about to be printed ) that Conti became part of the Futurist movement.

Francesco Balilla Pratella joined the Futurist movement in 1910 and wrote a Manifesto of Futurist Musicians in which he appealed to the young ( as had Marinetti ), because only they could understand what he had to say.

Marinetti founded the Futurist Political Party ( Partito Politico Futurista ) in early 1918, which was absorbed into Benito Mussolini's Fasci di combattimento in 1919, making Marinetti one of the first members of the National Fascist Party.

When Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issued his Futurist Manifesto in 1909, he chose to contrast his movement with the supposedly defunct artistic sentiments of the Winged Victory: "... a race-automobile which seems to rush over exploding powder is more beautiful than the ' Victory of Samothrace '.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of the Futurist Manifesto.

* The Futurist Manifesto-F. T. Marinetti

Janco attended the 1930 reunion organized by Contimporanul in honor of the visiting Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and gave a welcoming speech.

The sentiment of Futurists was most vocally expressed by Filippo Marinetti in the Futurist Manifesto, where he called for a rejection of the past, a rejection of all imitation — of other artists or of the outside world — and praised the virtue of originality and triumph of technology.

Influenced by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla adopted the Futurism style, creating a pictorial depiction of light, movement and speed.

The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and others all espoused a love of speed, technology and violence.

* 1944 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer ( b. 1876 )

* 1876 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor ( d. 1944 )

The 1916 Manifesto of Futuristic Cinematography was signed by Filippo Marinetti, Armando Ginna, Bruno Corra, Giacomo Balla and others.

The Cubo-Futurist ideas of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti influenced attitudes in avant-garde architecture.

F. T. Marinetti was the most prolific poet among them, and created several works that destroyed all typographic conventions.

Current groups The Pfister Sisters, Stolen Sweets, and Boswellmania, the French Puppini Sisters or the Italian trio Sorelle Marinetti continue to imitate the sisters ' recordings.

The Letterist poem, or lettrie, in many ways resembles what certain Italian Futurists ( such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ), Russian Futurists ( such as Velemir Chlebnikov, Iliazd, or Alexej Kručenych — cf.

Key figures of the movement include the Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, Antonio Sant ' Elia, Tullio Crali and Luigi Russolo, and the Russians Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as the Portuguese Almada Negreiros.

The founder of Futurism and its most influential personality was the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old, especially political and artistic tradition.

The Florence group resented the dominance of Marinetti and Boccioni, whom they accused of trying to establish " an immobile church with an infallible creed ", and each group dismissed the other as passéiste.

Then, fearing the re-election of Giolitti, Marinetti published a political manifesto.

In September, Boccioni, seated in the balcony of the Teatro dal Verme in Milan, tore up an Austrian flag and threw it into the audience, while Marinetti waved an Italian flag.