Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

1876 - 1944

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: futurism

country of citizenship: Kingdom of Italy

languages spoken, written or signed: French, Italian, Spanish

educated at: University of Genoa

occupation: poet, writer, playwright, composer, science fiction writer, photographer, designer, politician

award received: Bronze Medal of Military Valour, War Merit Cross (Italy), War Cross for Military Valour, Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915-1918, Victory Medal, Commemorative Medal of the Unity of Italy, medaglia di benemerenza per i volontari della campagna dell'Africa Orientale 1935-1936, commemorative medal of the military operation in East Africa, Croce commemorativa del Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (Italian: [fiˈlippo tomˈmaːzo mariˈnetti]; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de Créteil between 1907 and 1908. Marinetti is best known as the author of the first Futurist Manifesto, which was written and published in 1909, and as a co-author of the Fascist Manifesto, in 1919. Source: Wikipedia (en)