Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

Also known as: Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (born December 22, 1876, Alexandria, Egypt—died December 2, 1944, Bellagio, Italy) was an Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist. He was the ideological founder of Futurism, an early 20th-century literary, artistic, and political movement. Marinetti was educated in Egypt, France, Italy, and Switzerland and began his literary career working for an Italian-French magazine in Milan. During most of his life, his base was in France, though he made frequent trips to...