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Marinetti was born as first child to Amalia Grolli, a literature scholar's daughter and Enrico Marinetti, an advocat. Within the beneficial intellectual setting, Marinetti not only profited from his father's relations to Egyptian high society members but also from an education in Egypt, France, Italy and Switzerland. | Marinetti was born as first child to Amalia Grolli, a literature scholar's daughter and Enrico Marinetti, an advocat. Within the beneficial intellectual setting, Marinetti not only profited from his father's relations to Egyptian high society members but also from an education in Egypt, France, Italy and Switzerland. | ||
1888 at the age of 12, he enters the Jesuit | 1888 at the age of 12, he enters the Jesuit "Saint François Xavier College" in France where he discovers his passion for Literature, especially French and Italian writers, as for instance Émile Zola, Charles Baudelaire or Gabriele D'Annunzio. Due to his non-conformist behaviour, according to the Jesuits, he is expelled from college. 1893 he moves to Paris in order to do his "baccalauréat ès lettres". His stay in Paris is of vital importance for his development as a writer and futurist poet. After his graduation he moves to Milan where his family had moved to before to initiate his university studies at Pavia and Genoa where he graduates on July 14, 1899 in Jurisprudence. | ||
During his studies, he endeepens his interests for Literature and writing. On September 20 1898 he collaborates with the Italian-French journal "Anthologie-Revue" where he publishes the little poem "Les Vieux Marins" (engl. The old mariners). 1900, he goes on a tour of conferences around Italy in order to spread his writings. Thus, he becomes increasingly focussed on his writing career. Therefore, his appartment in Via Veneto 2 in Milan becomes the creative centre for some Futurists. At the same place he is given his first published book "La conquête des Étoiles" (engl. The conquer of the stars)in 1902. After his mother's death in the same year he goes on another tour around Italy on conferences and publishes more pieces of writing in the following years. He is able to expand his relations in a well-established network in the high society of Milan which attracts other writers to come on a visit to him. 1905 he founds the journal ''Poesia'' in which he publishes writings written in his 1907 developed "Verso libero" (engl. free verse) style. His topics deal with technological progress (due to the lately increased productions and innovations in the automobile and aeronautic industries), an aggressive fight against all "past" structures and dynamical and progressive experiences in metropolitan life among mass societies. | |||
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Born Dec. 22, 1876 (Alexandria, Egypt) - Died Dec. 2, 1944 (Bellagio, Italy).
The ideological founding father of the Futurist movement
Life of Marinetti
Marinetti was born as first child to Amalia Grolli, a literature scholar's daughter and Enrico Marinetti, an advocat. Within the beneficial intellectual setting, Marinetti not only profited from his father's relations to Egyptian high society members but also from an education in Egypt, France, Italy and Switzerland. 1888 at the age of 12, he enters the Jesuit "Saint François Xavier College" in France where he discovers his passion for Literature, especially French and Italian writers, as for instance Émile Zola, Charles Baudelaire or Gabriele D'Annunzio. Due to his non-conformist behaviour, according to the Jesuits, he is expelled from college. 1893 he moves to Paris in order to do his "baccalauréat ès lettres". His stay in Paris is of vital importance for his development as a writer and futurist poet. After his graduation he moves to Milan where his family had moved to before to initiate his university studies at Pavia and Genoa where he graduates on July 14, 1899 in Jurisprudence.
During his studies, he endeepens his interests for Literature and writing. On September 20 1898 he collaborates with the Italian-French journal "Anthologie-Revue" where he publishes the little poem "Les Vieux Marins" (engl. The old mariners). 1900, he goes on a tour of conferences around Italy in order to spread his writings. Thus, he becomes increasingly focussed on his writing career. Therefore, his appartment in Via Veneto 2 in Milan becomes the creative centre for some Futurists. At the same place he is given his first published book "La conquête des Étoiles" (engl. The conquer of the stars)in 1902. After his mother's death in the same year he goes on another tour around Italy on conferences and publishes more pieces of writing in the following years. He is able to expand his relations in a well-established network in the high society of Milan which attracts other writers to come on a visit to him. 1905 he founds the journal Poesia in which he publishes writings written in his 1907 developed "Verso libero" (engl. free verse) style. His topics deal with technological progress (due to the lately increased productions and innovations in the automobile and aeronautic industries), an aggressive fight against all "past" structures and dynamical and progressive experiences in metropolitan life among mass societies.