Futurist Manifesto

The Manifesto of Futurism (Italian: Manifesto del Futurismo) is a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published in 1909. Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism that was a rejection of the past and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry. It also advocated for the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. Publication Marinetti wrote the manifesto in the autumn of 1908 and it first appeared as a preface to a volume of his poems, published in Milan in January 1909. It was published in the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell'Emilia in Bologna on 5 February 1909, then in French as Manifeste du futurisme (Manifesto of Futurism) in the newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. Marinetti's Poesia focused its April 1909 issue on the manifesto (the Italian and French versions were reprinted in March 1912 together with English version). In April 1909 a Madrid-based magazine, Prometeo, published the Spanish translation of the manifesto which was translated by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Contents The limits of Italian literature at the end of the so-called Ottocento (19th century), its lack of strong contents, its quiet and passive laissez-faire , were fought by futurists (see article 1, 2 and 3) and their reaction included the use of excesses intended to prove the existence of a dynamic surviving Italian intellectual class. In this period in which industry was of growing importance across Europe, futurists needed to confirm that Italy was present, had an industry, had the power to take part in new experiences and would find the superior essence of progress in its major symbols like the car and its speed (see article 4). Nationalism was never openly declared, but it was evident.