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| Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso |
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(f lp´p tm-mä´z märn t´t) (KEY) , 1876–1944, Italian poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known as the founder of futurism (1909), on which he wrote and lectured, and as an advocate of Fascism; he was one of the first members of the Fascist party. He wrote in both French and Italian; among his works are Le Roi Bombance (1905) and Mafarka il futurista, published (1910) simultaneously in French and Italian. | 1 | | See his writings ed. by R. W. Flint (tr. 1972). | 2 |
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