Contesto storico e avanguardie europee: il caso del futurismo italiano

The figure and the work of the volcanic Marinetti express the image of an European intellectual: his artistic-literary theory exalts the break with the past and defend the technological age, which is one of the basis of the first vanguard Italian movement, at the beginning of the XX century. Its contents cross the national boundaries, invading European metropolis with exhibitions, lectures, theatr…