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3 unusual facts about Filippo Tommaso Marinetti


Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

That year, Marinetti discovered some allies in three young painters, (Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo), who adopted the Futurist philosophy.

Pranzo Oltranzista

It is subtitled "Musica da Tavola per Cinque" (literally translated as Banquet Piece for Five Players), and is based on "Futurist Cookbook" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, written in 1932.

Valentine de Saint-Point

She began her collaborations with several magazines such as The Artist Europe, The Mercury, The New Review, The Age, La Plume, and Gil Blas, whose founder was the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.


Ernesto Giménez Caballero

As literary critic for El Sol he went to Italy in 1928 and struck up friendships with such fascist thinkers as Giuseppe Bottai, Giovanni Gentile, Curzio Malaparte, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, eventually becoming an adherent of fascist beliefs himself.

Gerardo Dottori

He was one of the signatories of the 1929 Aeropainting Manifesto, signed also by Benedetta Cappa, Depero, Fillia, Marinetti, Prampolini and others, who are among its major representatives.

Nikolay Diulgheroff

He contributed to the Futurist meals formulated in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Fillia's 1930 Manifesto of Futurist Cooking: the dish pollofiat was his idea and he co-designed the interior of the Taverna Santopalato, the prime establishment for futurist cuisine.


see also

The Futurist

"The Futurist Manifesto", a 1909 essay by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti