Italian author. In 1909 he published
Manifesto del Futurismo, the first manifesto of
Futurism, exhorting the youth of Italy to break with tradition in art, poetry, and the novel and face the challenges of a new machine age. He illustrated his theories in
Mafarka le futuriste: Roman africaine/Mafarka the Futurist: African Novel (1909). His best-known work is the
Manifesto technico della letteratura futuristica/Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature (1912; translated 1971). He also wrote plays, a volume on theatrical practice (1916), and a volume of poems
Guerra sola igiene del mondo/War the Only Hygiene of the World (1915).
© RM 2009. Helicon Publishing is division of RM.