Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso (fēlēp`pō tōm-mä`zō märēnĕt`tē), 1876–1944, Italian poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known as the founder of futurism futurism, Italian school of painting, sculpture, and literature that flourished from 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I.
..... Click the link for more information. (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.

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See his writings ed. by R. W. Flint (tr. 1972).

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso (Emilio)

(born Dec. 22, 1876, Alexandria, Egypt—died Dec. 2, 1944, Bellagio, Italy) Italian-French writer, the ideological founder of Futurism. In early poetry such as Destruction (1904), he showed the vigour and anarchic experimentation with form that would characterize his later work. Futurism officially began with the 1909 publication of his manifesto in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. His ideas were quickly adopted in Italy, and he later elaborated on his theory in a novel and several dramatic works. Arguing that fascism was Futurism's natural extension, he became an active fascist and lost most of his following in the 1920s.