INVENTORY OF THE PAPERS OF F. T. MARINETTI AND BENEDETTA
CAPPA MARINETTI, 1902-1965
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INVENTORY OF THE PAPERS OF F. T. MARINETTI AND BENEDETTA
CAPPA MARINETTI, 1902-1965
Accession no. 920092
Finding aid prepared by Annette Leddy and Jeremy Parzen
Getty Research Institute
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Papers of F.T. Marinetti and Benedetta Cappa
Marinetti
Date (inclusive): 1902-1965
Date (bulk): 1920-1939
Collection number: 920092
Creator:
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 1876-1944
Creator:
Marinetti Cappa, Benedetta, 1897-1977
Extent:
ca. 60 linear ft.
(145 boxes, 5 flat file folders)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA
90049-1688
Abstract: The founder and leader of the futurist movement. Married Benedetta Cappa, a futurist writer and artist, in 1923. Collection
includes minor manifesto manuscripts, generally typewritten, sometimes translated or excerpted; a number of minor literary
manuscripts; and 20,000 slides that reproduce the contents of Marinetti's five scrapbooks. Material on Benedetta includes
handwritten corrected drafts of her three novels, and a number of essays and speeches. Some correspondence suggests the central
role that Marinetti and Benedetta played relative to the other futurists, whose activities the collection selectively documents
via manuscripts, photos, clippings, slides, posters, scrapbooks, and musical scores
Language: Collection material in Italian
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers; some material restricted.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Papers of F.T. Marinetti and Benedetta Cappa
Marinetti, 1902-1965 (bulk 1920-1939), Getty Research Institute, Research
Library, Accession no. 920092.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1992.
Processing History
The papers were quickly assembled for scholarly
perusal using the dealer's box guide. Brent Sverdloff wrote temporary a RLIN
record and began writing a Finding Aid. Annette Leddy and Jeremy Parzen
processed the papers in late 1994. Annette Leddy, with the help of Jeremy
Parzen, wrote the current Finding Aid, integrating some of Visiting Scholar
Esther Cohn's comments written on the dealer's box guide.
Separated Material
Polemica Carducciana by Ettore Romagnoli (Item #165), is
catalogued in the Getty Research Library's general collection.
Biographical/Historical Note
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, born in Alexandria in 1876, attended
secondary school and university in France, where he began his literary career.
After gaining some success as a poet, he founded and edited the journal
Poesia (1905), a forum in which the theories of Futurism
rather quickly evolved. With "Fondazione e Manifesto del Futurismo," published
in
Le Figaro (1909), Marinetti launched what was arguably the
first 20th c. avant-garde movement, anticipating many of the issues of Dada and
Surrealism. Like other avant-garde movements, Futurism took the momentous
developments in science and industry as signaling a new historical era,
demanding correspondingly innovative art forms and language. Like other
avant-garde movements, Futurism found a solution in collage, which Marinetti
called "parole in libertà" when applied to literary forms. Between 1909
and 1920, the period known as Futurism's heroic phase, Marinetti energetically
promoted his own work, and that of fellow Futurists, through numerous
manifestos, speeches, essays, meetings, performances and publications.
Following WWI, in which he served, Marinetti became an active member of the
Fascist party; on April 15, 1919, he and Ferruccio Vecchi led the "battle" of
piazza Mercanti against socialists, communists, and anarchists, which was
Italian Fascism's first decisive victory. In 1929 he was elected to the Academy
of Italy. Throughout the 1920s and 30s and until his death in 1944, Marinetti
sought to reconcile the theories of Futurism with the ideology of state Fascism
and to serve as impresario for both.
In 1923, Marinetti married Benedetta Cappa. The author of three
critically acclaimed Futurist novels, a sizable body of art work, and the
mother (with Marinetti) of three girls, Benedetta wrote essays and gave
speeches on women and art and women and Fascism, and was presented in the press
during the 1930s as a role model for Italian women. After her husband's death,
Benedetta continued to correspond with fellow Futurists and to promote Futurism
by organizing exhibitions, selling the Marinetti art collection to prominent
American collectors and museums, and writing catalog essays.
Scope and Content of Collection
This archive of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Benedetta Cappa
Marinetti papers consists primarily of material from the 1920s and 30s, though
correspondence and newspaper clippings date from before and after those
decades. It offers a view of FTM in the ceremonial rather than incendiary role
that he played during Futurism's second phase. Pieces such as "Ritratti
futuristi del Duce" suggest the extent to which he served as a propagandist for
the Fascist government and adapted the tenets of Futurism to that purpose.
There are a number of minor manuscripts on art and Futurist artists, generally
typewritten, occasionally with corrections, and some minor literary manuscripts
as well.
The material on Benedetta includes handwritten corrected drafts of her
three novels and a number of essays, speeches and notes on women and art, women
and Fascism, Futurism, and FTM. Benedetta's letters to her brother, Alberto
Cappa, and to FTM at the Russian Front, offer an intimate view of this woman
who, as clippings in her Librone document, was presented in the 1930s Italian
press as a role model for Italian women. Her correspondence with fellow
Futurists and with American collectors and institutions after FTM's death show
her active role in preserving the accomplishments of Futurism for
posterity.
Various media comprise the archive, including manuscripts, photos,
clippings, slides, posters, scrapbooks, and scores. Through all these media in
combination the archive selectively documents the activities of the inner
circle of the Futurist movement.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subject: personal names
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 1876-1944
Marinetti, Cappa, Benedetta
Cappa, Alberto
Subjects: topics
Art, Italian—20th century
Futurism (Literary movement)
Futurism (Art)
Futurism (Art)—Collectors and collecting
Futurism (Art)—Exhibitions
Futurism (Music)
Fascism and literature—Italy
Fascism and art—Italy
Fascism in art
Fascism and women—Italy
Italian literature—20th century
Genres and Forms of Material
Clippings—20th century
Manifestoes—20th century
Photographic prints—20th century
Photographs, Original—20th century
Posters—20th century
Scores—20th century
Scrapbooks—20th century
Slides (photographs)—20th century
Contributors
Amendola Kühn, Eva, 1880-
Balla, Giacomo, 1871-1958
Boccioni, Umberto, 1882-1916
Brizzi, Carlo
Campanini, Gustavo
Cangiullo, Francesco, 1888-
Cappa, Alberto
Cappa, Amalia
Casavola, Franco, 1891-1955
Chio, Ada
Cioffi, Giuseppe
Farfa, 1879-1964
Giuntini, Aldo
Marinetti Cappa, Benedetta, 1897-1977
Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945
Masnata, Pino
Mix, Silvio
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
Prampolini, Enrico, 1894-1956
Pratella, Francesco Balilla, 1880-1955
Sciorilli, Eros
Severini, Gino, 1883-1966
Tato, 1896-1974
Windisch, Käthe
Series I.
Manuscripts and Correspondence of Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti,
1902-1944
1920s-1930s
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
The majority of material is from the 1920s and 1930s, that is, from
Futurism's second phase, and reflects FTM's sustained endeavor to reconcile
Fascism with Futurism and to serve as impresario of both. Among the manifesto
and essay manuscripts are minor, generally typewritten pieces, often on
individual Futurist artists. There are two translated, excerpted versions of
"Destruction de la Syntaxe," the dating of which is uncertain; one of these is
part of a longer, translated piece on art and literature. The archive also
includes FTM's open letters to Hitler and Mussolini, critiques of Einstein and
Joyce, and reflections on political issues. Seven manuscripts are specifically
identified as speeches; these are on topics such as Prampolini's portrait of
Mussolini ("Ritratti futuristi del Duce"), the death of Bruno Mussolini, art,
and aviation. Literary manuscripts include reprint proofs of "Re Baldoria,"
corrected proofs of "La Città Carnale," and typed or handwritten drafts
of various minor short stories, scripts, and poems. Correspondence consists of
letters, contracts, and receipts from FTM's publishers, letters from fellow
Futurists, (scattered to 1944; approx. 100 items), and a group of love letters
from women, including Ada Chio (1902-10; approx. 85 items). Among the
miscellaneous material is a dossier of the National Honorary Conference for FTM
(1924), and newspaper articles about FTM and Benedetta's visit to Sofia
(1932).
Box 1, Folder 1
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., "Destruction de la Syntaxe," 1912(?).
Box 1, Folder 2
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 37 typed pp. (with extra copy of final four pp.), "La
Poésie Futuriste," and other writings. Includes slightly different
version of "Destruction de la Syntaxe" (pp. 3-12).
Box 1, Folder 3
MARINETTI:
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "La cinematografia ai poeti italiani moderni,"
signed.
Box 1, Folder 4
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., "Tipografia di guerra e dopo-guerra," signed.
Box 1, Folder 5
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 typed pp., "Poesia e Arti corporative," with corrections
by Marinetti. 1937.
Box 1, Folder 6
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 11 handwritten pp., arguing that James Joyce was not the
first to use "stream of consciousness".
Box 1, Folder 7
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 16 handwritten pp., on the Futurist exhibition at the
Venice Biennale, 1926.
Box 1, Folder 8
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Trionfo dell'aeropittura di guerra sulle
nature morte," 1937(?).
Box 1, Folder 9
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 handwritten pp., regarding the international avant-garde,
in Benedetta's handwriting, (dictated to her?), 1930s(?)
Box 1, Folder 10
MARINETTI; MAZZONI; SOMENZI
Scope and Content Note
manifesto, 1 large printed page, "Manifesto Futurista
dell'architettura aerea."
Box 1, Folder 11
MARINETTI, ET AL
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., pages 7-9 of essay on cinema.
Box 1, Folder 12
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Profili d'Artisti Futuristi, Renato Di
Bosso," with corrections.
Box 1, Folder 13
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp. (carbon copy), "L'aeropittore Futurista Ugo
Pozzo."
Box 1, Folder 14
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Gerardo Dottori, pittore futurista umbro."
Box 1, Folder 15
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., "Umberto Boccioni e lo stretto di Messina,"
1930s(?).
Box 1, Folder 16
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., preface for poem by Tullio d'Albisola, 1937.
Box 1, Folder 17
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 13 typed pp., "Enrico Prampolini, vincitore del premio
Boccioni," with corrections, 1930s(?).
Box 1, Folder 18
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., on Fernand Léger, with corrections.
Box 1, Folder 19
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., on Fillia.
Box 1, Folder 20
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten pp., "Il Pittore Futurista Balla," signed.
Box 1, Folder 21
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., "Aeropoesie futuriste di Vladimiro Miletti,"
with note by Miletti.
Box 1, Folder 22
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., on Paul Claudel.
Box 1, Folder 23
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., "Studenti fascisti cantano così di
Emilio Buccafusca."
Box 1, Folder 24
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., speech given at "exposition d'art italien
ancien," Sorbonne(?), signed, 1924(?).
Box 1, Folder 25
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., presentation speech given at "Mostra
Aeropittura" at Venice Biennnale, signed.
Box 1, Folder 26
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 10 handwritten pp., in Benedetta's handwriting (dictated to
her?), "Futurismo mondiale, volontà futuriste," with corrections; ms., 5
typed pp., "Volontà Futuriste," with corrections; ms., 6 typed p.,
"Futurismo mondiale, Volontà Futuriste."
Box 1, Folder 27
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., 2 copies, manifesto, "Il programma naturista,"
1934(?).
Box 1, Folder 28
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 12 handwritten pp., draft of Italian Futurists' open letter
to Hitler, 1937; ms., 2 typed pp., "Lettera aperta dei Futuristi Italiani a
Hitler," final version with corrections; ms., 3 typed pp., french translation
of letter.
Box 1, Folder 29
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., manifesto, "Lettre ouverte a Mussolini pour
defendre la publicité lumineuse" (in Piazza del Duomo, Milan), note by
Marinetti on reverse. ms., 1 typed p., 3 copies, Italian translation of above
manifesto, 2 copies with hand corrections, one signed by FTM.
Box 1, Folder 30
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
clipping, "Aesthetics of Electricity," English translation by
"The Edison Monthly" from "Il carroccio," 1915(?); ms., 2 typed pp., draft of
Italian version of above article.
Box 1, Folder 31
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Come Einstein vede il Mondo."
Box 1, Folder 32
MARINETTI
1930s?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 typed pp., "Message Futuriste aux Etudiantes Grecs," with
corrections.
Box 1, Folder 33
MARINETTI
1933?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 handwritten pp., "Inquiétude de l'Europe.".
Box 1, Folder 34
MARINETTI
1930s
Scope and Content Note
ms., 14 typed pp., speech on Balbo and Italian aviation, with
corrections; ms., 16 typed pp., "Omaggio della nuova Poesia ai Transvolatori,"
with corrections (later draft) 1930s?.
Box 1, Folder 35
MARINETTI
1936
Scope and Content Note
ms., 15 typed pp., memorial speech for Lieutenant Savaré
(killed in action at Ascheb Tzelá).
Box 1, Folder 36
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., radio speech, "Ritratti futuristi del
Duce."
Box 1, Folder 37
MARINETTI
1941
Scope and Content Note
ms., 13 typed pp., speech held in Brianza commemorating death of
Bruno Mussolini, 1941. clipping about event attached to ms.
Box 1, Folder 38
MARINETTI
1936?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., fragment of preface to book on Mussolini by
Ivon de Begnac(?), signed.
Box 1, Folder 39
MARINETTI(?)
1930s?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Abolizione o riduzione dei debiti."
Box 1, Folder 40
MARINETTI
ca. 1910
Scope and Content Note
proofs of "Re Baldoria," reprints from 1910 edition.
Box 1, Folder 41
MARINETTI
1910?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 153 pp., proofs of "La Città Carnale," with
corrections.
Box 1, Folder 42
MARINETTI
1908?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 64 typed pp., "Versi e Prose, prima traduzione italiana,"
Italian translation of Mallarmé.
Box 1, Folder 43
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 handwritten pp., "Navigazione Tattile," with corrections,
signed; ms., 1 p., "Macchina Lirica."
Box 1, Folder 44
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., script for 'romanzo discato,' "Amanti
Simultanei," with corrections.
Box 1, Folder 45
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
clipping, 2 pp., short story, "Il commandante la Bella [Marino
Canale]," with corrections.
Box 1, Folder 46
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., "Il Cantico di San Giovanni."
Box 1, Folder 47
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 handwritten pp., elegy to Italy written during WWI,
copied by Vito Nuzzo.
Box 1, Folder 48
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 10 typed pp., "La Grande Milano Tradizionale Futurista"
(missing pp. 1 and 8).
Box 1, Folder 49
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., "Forze diverse della centrale italiana."
Box 1, Folder 50
MARINETTI
1937?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., notes on the African Poem.
Box 1, Folder 51
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
clipping, "Danza dell'aviatore," signed; ms., 2 typed pp.,
"Pantomina [sic] dell'Aviatrice." (later version of "Danza dell'aviatore").
Box 1, Folder 52
MARINETTI(?)
1930s
Scope and Content Note
ms., 19 typed pp., short stories, "Luna tagliente" and "Miss
Radio."
Box 1, Folder 53
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 40 typed pp., script, "Simultanina (divertimento futurista
in 16 sintesi)," with corrections, copy dedicated to Franco Rosso.
Box 1, Folder 54
MARINETTI(?)
1930s
Scope and Content Note
ms., 12 handwritten pp., "L'elica e il paesaggio," dictated to
Benedetta(?).
Box 1, Folder 55
MARINETTI
1926
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., memoir of Brazilian trip, 1926.
Box 1, Folder 56
MARINETTI
1936
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., "Meandri di un Rio della Foresta Brasiliana;"
ms., 1 typed p., "Azione Imperiale," 1936.
Box 1, Folder 57
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., on trip to South America aboard the Giulio
Cesare.
Box 1, Folder 58
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 11 handwritten pp., account of Del Gurzo's embezzlement of
funds meant to finance South American exhibition of Futurism, dictated to
Benedetta(?).
Box 1, Folder 59
MARINETTI
1924-1926
Scope and Content Note
ms., 22 typed pp., poems "A Beny.".
Box 1, Folder 60
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 handwritten pp., poem in French, "Tout au bout..."
Box 1, Folder 61
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., poem, "Contre les cheveux courts."
Box 1, Folder 62
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., poem, "Saluto."
Box 1, Folder 63
MARINETTI
1902
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., poem, "Chante ton or chante ton bleu."
Box 1, Folder 64
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., from "Poema Africa," note by FTM on
reverse.
Box 1, Folder 65
MARINETTI
1936-1938
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., fragment(?) of poem, "Ala Luce Vittoria"
(to his daughters).
Box 1, Folder 66
MARINETTI
1911-1912?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 typed pp., four poems: "Paysage d'Odeurs de Mon
Chien-Loup"; "Portrait Olfactif d'une Femme"; "Temperatures du Corps d'un
Nageur (incomplete)"; "Machine Lyrique," 1911-1912 (?).
Box 1, Folder 67
MARINETTI(?)
1928
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., poem, "Paroliberi di Trapani."
Box 1, Folder 68
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 handwritten pp., poems, "Après midi,"
"Fenêtre très remote," and "Nuit d'été," notes by
Marinetti (?).
Box 1, Folder 69
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Pernambuco."
Box 1, Folder 70
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 15 typed pp., (first p. missing) autobiographical
writings.
Box 1, Folder 71
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., "Per vincere! Concorso a Premi di 'Mediterraneo
Futurista.'"
Box 1, Folder 72
MARINETTI
1922
Scope and Content Note
clipping, "Invito ai poeti...," anouncement for poetry contest
by "I Poeti Vignaioli" (Marinetti, Govoni, and Lipparini); ms., 6 handwritten
pp., draft of announcement, 1922.
Box 1, Folder 73
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 of 3 typed pp. (p. 2 missing), account of the Premio
Nazionale "Al poeta originale" award ceremony (Masnata, Cucini, Goretti).
Box 2, Folder 1
MARINETTI
1940
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 p. (2 copies), WWII recruitment letter to fellow
Futurists, 1940.
Box 2, Folder 2
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., World War II obituaries: Alfredo Cappellini,
Enrico Baroni, Umberto Novaro, Costantino Borsini, Carlo Margottini, Corrado
del Greco.
Box 2, Folder 3
MARINETTI
1915?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., notes on "Comizio contro Nitti,"
religion, etc.
Box 2, Folder 4
MARINETTI
1924?
Scope and Content Note
clippings and ms., 1 handwritten p., "Scenografia Semifuturista
di Appia."
Box 2, Folder 5
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., "Collaudo;" ms., 6 typed pp., "Un libro
decisivo su la scenotecnica," on Prampolini's Scenotecnica); clipping, 2 pp.,
with homage to Lieut. Carlo Erba in upper margin.
Box 2, Folder 6
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., about set design for a play ("Tamburo di
Fuoco?").
Box 2, Folder 7
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., about establishment of "Società di
protezione delle macchine."
Box 2, Folder 8
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., speech(?) celebrating the machine.
Box 2, Folder 9
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., rebuttal to critics.
Box 2, Folder 10
MARINETTI(?)
1941
Scope and Content Note
ms., handwritten 4 pp., account of Capt. Tarigo and the the
bombing of the Pietro de Cristoforo.
Box 2, Folder 11
MARINETTI
1935
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., radio interview with FTM in France,"A propos
de l'exposition d'art Futuriste.".
Box 2, Folder 11
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., French article on Futurism.
Box 2, Folder 12
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., notes on WWI (names, date, locations).
Box 2, Folder 13
MARINETTI(?)
1913-1914
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 p., list of paintings by Balla for exhibits in Rotterdam,
1913, and Lacerba catalogue, 1914.
Box 2, Folder 14
MARINETTI
1929
Scope and Content Note
ms., 21 pp., proofs/transcription of conference held at Galleria
Pesaro: "Il Futurismo e il Novecento.".
Box 2, Folder 15
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 p. proof, 3 copies, "La Riforma delle Corride."
Box 2, Folder 16
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 pp. proof, with hand corrections, introduction (catalog
essay?) to Futurist exhibition in Ferrara.
Box 2, Folder 17
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 14 pp., proofs (non-sequential) of three different
books.
Box 2, Folder 18
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 25 pp., proofs of collections of articles, with hand
corrections.
Box 2, Folder 19
MARINETTI & OTHERS
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous proofs.
Box 2, Folder 20
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
letter, 2 handwritten pp., inquiring about the translated volume
"Le Futurisme."
Box 2, Folder 21
MARINETTI
1940
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to Mussolini requesting audience.
Box 2, Folder 22
MARINETTI
1944
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 typed p., to Amicucci.
Box 2, Folder 23
MARINETTI(?)
Scope and Content Note
letter, 2 handwritten pp., to "Marta," on "La neve in giardino."
Box 2, Folder 24
MARINETTI & BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
letter, 2 handwritten pp., to "Carissimo."
Box 2, Folder 25
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., tributes to FTM and Futurism, by Mussolini,
Romagnoli, Ezra Pound, etc.
Box 2, Folder 26
(MARINETTI)
through 1944
Scope and Content Note
letters and telegrams to FTM and Benedetta from Dottori,
Janelli, Acquaviva, Masnata, Bragaglia, Buzzi, Corra, Bottai, Tato, and others,
approx. 40 items, through 1944.
Box 2, Folder 27
(MARINETTI)
through 1944
Scope and Content Note
letters and telegrams to FTM and Benedetta from Cesare Andreoni,
Piero Bellanova, Anselmo Osti, Forlin, Tullio d'Albisola, Primo Conti, Civello,
Fillia, Ferrazzi, Tedeschi, Cucchetti, Poissy, E.A. Longo, Maria Goretti,
George Vantongerloo, and others, approx. 50 items.
Box 2, Folder 28-31
(MARINETTI)
1902-1910
Scope and Content Note
letters and postcards to FTM from women friends,
approx. 85 items.
Box 2, Folder 29
Henriette (unknown last name)
Box 2, Folder 31
unidentified correspondents
Box 3, Folder 1-7
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
contracts, letters and receipts from FTM's publishers, over 100
items.
Box 4, Folder 1-2
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
dossier of National Honorary Conference for FTM, includes
schedule, programs, guest list and over 300 letters, postcards, and telegrams
from Futurists Carrà, Azari, Prampolini, Casavola, Mix, Depero, and
others, 1924. [117]
Box 4, Folder 3
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
dossier of WWI & II: documents, bulletins, clippings,
letters, decorations, etc., approx. 40 items.
Box 4, Folder 4
(MARINETTI)
1915
Scope and Content Note
mortgage to FTM's house in Milan, and lease for house in
Milan.
Box 4, Folder 5
(MARINETTI)
1922-1943
Scope and Content Note
personal records of FTM & Benedetta including Wasserman test
results, electorcardiogram, other medical records, civil documents, and
licenses.
Box 4, Folder 6
(MARINETTI)
1914
Scope and Content Note
certificate for bicycle purchased in 1914.
Box 4, Folder 7
(MARINETTI)
1930s
Scope and Content Note
letter and clippings, regarding FTM's activities in P.E.N.,
1930s.
Box 4, Folder 8
(MARINETTI)
1944
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., attendance record of 'Last Futurist
Meeting' at FTM's house in Venice.
Box 4, Folder 9
(MARINETTI)
1937
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 typed p., from Podesta of Recanati, thanking FTM for
proposing creation of an Istituto Leopardiano in his city.
Box 4, Folder 10
(MARINETTI)
1937-1938
Scope and Content Note
program, 3 pp., "Lectures in Italian given at Liceo Italiano of
London."
Box 4, Folder 11
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
birth certificate, duplicate from 1916 (with erroneous
information?).
Box 4, Folder 12
(MARINETTI)
1932
Scope and Content Note
cover of FTM and D'Albisola's book Parole in libertà
futuriste.
Box 4, Folder 13
letters and postcards to FTM, primarily regarding
finances.
Box 4, Folder 14
(MARINETTI)
1936
Scope and Content Note
contract with publisher Casella (Naples), for
"L'originalità napoletana del poeta Salvatore di Giacomo."
Box 4, Folder 15
(MARINETTI)
1899,
1929-1934
Scope and Content Note
certificates and diplomas: Diplome de Bachelier, 1894; law
degree, Università di Genova, 1899; honorary degree from La Mostra
d'Arte Coloniale, 1932; Order National de la Legion d'Honneur, 1930; Ouisam
Alaouite, 1932; Ordine Corona Romanie, 1930; nomination to Reale Accademia
d'Italia, 1929-1934.
Box 4, Folder 15
(GROLLI, AMALIA (FTM's Mother)
1853-1854
Scope and Content Note
degree from Conservatorio di musica in Milano.
Box 4, Folder 16
(MARINETTI)
1932
Scope and Content Note
3 clippings from newspapers about FTM's visit to Sofia.
Translations of articles from Bulgarian newspapers, 52 typed pp., 1932. ms., 3
typed pp., review of "Mediterraneo Futurista," (by FTM?).
Series II.
Manuscripts and Correspondence of Benedetta
Cappa Marinetti,
ca. 1920-1962
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
The Benedetta section of Manuscripts and Correspondence contains handwritten drafts of Benedetta's three novels,
with corrections by FTM and Benedetta, and approximately twenty-five speeches
and essays, often in both handwritten and typewritten corrected drafts. The
essays concern women and Fascism, women and art, Futurism, Futurist artists,
and FTM. Correspondence includes letters from Benedetta to her brother, Alberto
Cappa, and her mother, Amalia Cappa, (1920s; approx. 100 items); letters to FTM
at the Front (1942; approx. 50 items); letters between Benedetta and the
Malbin's, Sidney Janis, and others, regarding the sale and exhibition of the
Marinetti collection of Futurist paintings (1945-1957, approx. 140 items);
correspondence regarding the sale and exhibition of Boccioni, for, among other
occasions, the 1949 MOMA exhibition of 20th c. Italian art (1947-1962; approx. 90
items); and correspondence with Futurists (1946-1960s; approx. 150 items).
Box 5, Folder 1
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 238 handwritten pp., "Sforzo differenziatore" ("Forze
umane"), with corrections by FTM.
Box 5, Folder 2
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 187 handwritten pp., "Il viaggio di Gararà"; ms.,
176 handwritten pp., "Il viaggio di Gararà" (published 1931), with
corrections by FTM.
Box 5, Folder 3
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
proofs, "Astra e sottomarino," with corrections, 1935.
Box 5, Folder 4
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 217 handwritten pp., "Astra e sottomarino"; ms., 235
handwritten pp., "Astra e sottomarino."
Box 6, Folder 1
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp. (2 copies), "A Message to the Women of America
and Europe"; ms., 4 typed pp., "Alle donne d'Europa e d'America"; ms., 6
handwritten pp., draft of "Alle donne..."; ms., 6 handwritten pp., draft of
"Alle donne..."
Box 6, Folder 2
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
clipping, "Spiritualità della donna italiana"; ms., 8
handwritten pp., "Spiritualità...," 1935.
Box 6, Folder 3
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 handwritten pp., "Contributo della donna moderna alla
letteratura e all'arte"; ms., 5 typed pp. (2 copies), "The Contribution of
Modern Woman to Literature and Art."
Box 6, Folder 4
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., role of women in a Futurist/Fascist program;
ms., 9 handwritten pp., on women in history; ms., 4 handwritten pp., on women
as musical composers; ms., 6 handwritten pp., on the male attitude toward
women; ms., 1 handwritten p., on women and the vote; poem, 2 handwritten pp.,
"Femminilita operante."
Box 6, Folder 5
(BENEDETTA)
Scope and Content Note
2 pamphlets on Fascist Women's conference, 1937; Benedetta's
pass for the "Terza mostra del sindacato nazionale fascista belle arti."
Box 6, Folder 6
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 16 handwritten pp., speech to Fascist women; ms., 32
handwritten pp., speech to Fascist women; 3 pp. notes; one clipping.
Box 6, Folder 7
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 30 typed pp. "Possibilità della donna nell'arte,"
1941; correspondence and notes regarding lecture at Scuola di mistica fascista,
"Possibilità della donna..."
Box 6, Folder 8
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 27 pp., proofs, "Donne della patria in guerra," with
corrections by FTM; ms., 24 typed pp., "Donne della patria in guerra," 1940;
ms., 74 handwritten pp., "Donne della patria in guerra"; ms., 6 typed pp. (3
copies), list of locations where lecture "Donne della patria in guerra" was
delivered (1941-1942) and report on reception.
Box 6, Folder 9
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 25 handwritten pp., on women and art.
Box 6, Folder 10
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 11 handwritten pp., on humanity; assorted notes, 13
handwritten pp., on creativity; bibliography, 5 handwritten pp.
Box 6, Folder 11
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 44 handwritten pp., autobiographical essay on female
authors, "Ero a Palermo...," with notes.
Box 6, Folder 12
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 11 handwritten pp., radio speech "Nascita artistica di
Littoria"; ms., 4 typed pp., "Nascita artistica di Littoria," with
corrections.
Box 6, Folder 13
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Volontà e Poesia nel Golfo di Napoli,"
signed; ms., 9 handwritten pp., notes.
Box 6, Folder 14
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 36 handwritten pp., on FTM and Futurism; ms., 15 typed pp.,
version of same with corrections. Miscellaneous notes on Futurism.
Box 6, Folder 15
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp. (one duplicate), on FTM to "Amici
Futuristi."
Box 6, Folder 16
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten pp., "6 mesi di Futurismo," 1936 (?).
Box 6, Folder 17
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 handwritten pp., on FTM.
Box 6, Folder 18
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 10 handwritten pp., notes on FTM's publications.
Box 6, Folder 19
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 12 handwritten pp., speech on FTM's African campaign
(1936-1937); ms., 6 handwritten pp., notes on Krimer.
Box 6, Folder 20
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., on Marinetti's death, 1944(?).
Box 6, Folder 21
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed pp., letter to FTM, 1936; ms., 2 handwritten pp.,
reflections on FTM?; poem, 1 handwritten p., "Pan ed Eco."
Box 6, Folder 22
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 handwritten pp., catalogue essay for Tato exhibit.
Box 6, Folder 23
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 16 handwritten pp., speech on Primarosa.
Box 6, Folder 24
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 12 handwritten pp. and 12 typewritten pp. (French and
Italian), on Balla and Futurism.
Box 6, Folder 25
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 handwritten pp., on Prampolini.
Box 6, Folder 26
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 29 handwritten pp., on Lucas Cranach (written for Cahiers
d'Art); ms., 26 typed pp., of same, with corrections.
Box 6, Folder 27
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 9 handwritten pp., "Eroismo suprema virtù," in honor
of Fillia, signed, 1936.
Box 6, Folder 28
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 handwritten pp., "Architettura d'avanguardia."
Box 6, Folder 29
BENEDETTA?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 typed, pp., celebration of the invention of rayon.
Box 6, Folder 30
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 handwritten pp., bibliography on fashion.
Box 6, Folder 31
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 13 handwritten pp., "Il sole di agosto"; ms., 6 typed pp.,
"Il sole di agosto."
Box 6, Folder 32
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 handwritten pp., "Eccola muovere..."
Box 6, Folder 33
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 handwritten pp., notes and drafts, with notes from FTM;
fragments of notes by Benedetta and FTM.
Box 6, Folder 34
SERRA, LAURA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 23 typed pp., essay on Benedetta and her writings.
Box 6, Folder 34
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., "L'opera letteraria di Benedetta."
Box 6, Folder 35
(BENEDETTA)
Scope and Content Note
certificates and degrees.
Box 7, Folder 1
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
clippings, sketchbooks, report cards, certificates, postcards.
Box 7, Folder 2-4
BENEDETTA
1920s
Scope and Content Note
correspondence, approx. 100 items.
Box 7, Folder 2-3
letters from Benedetta to Alberto Cappa
(brother)
Box 7, Folder 4
letter from Benedetta to Amalia Cappa
(mother)
Box 7, Folder 5-7
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
letters from Benedetta to FTM at the Front, with some letters
from Luce, Ala, and Vittoria included. Approx. 50 letters.
Box 7, Folder 5
to FTM at the Front, through Sept.,
1942
Box 7, Folder 6
to FTM at the Front, October 1942.
Box 7, Folder 7
miscellaneous family letters to FTM, Benedetta, Luce,
and Cappa, 1936, 1939-1943, 1950.
Box 7, Folder 8-10
BENEDETTA
1949-1957
Scope and Content Note
correspondence on sale and exhibition of Marinetti collection of
Futurist paintings, with Lydia and Winston Malbin, Sidney Janis, MoMA, and
others. Includes material regarding sale of Boccioni's "Antigrazioso" and "The
Footballer." Approx. 140 letters, receipts, and telegrams.
Box 8, Folder 1
(BOCCIONI)
1947-1962
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding sale and exhibition of Boccioni,
with letters from Alfred Barr, Jr., James Thrall Soby, Nelson
Rockefeller, and others. Includes material about MOMA's 1949 exhibition of 20th
c. Italian Art. Approx. 90 items.
Box 8, Folder 2-5
(BENEDETTA)
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with Futurists and others, often regarding
exhibitions, approx. 150 items.
Box 8, Folder 6
(BENEDETTA)
1956
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, 3 typed pp., from Avv. Carlo Accetti, regarding
L'Espresso article on Sant'Elia and FTM.
Box 8, Folder 6
MARCHI, V.
Scope and Content Note
letter, 2 typed pp., 2 copies, disputing
L'Espresso article.
Box 8, Folder 7
BENEDETTA
1930
Scope and Content Note
letter, 2 handwritten pp., to Alberto Cappa; letter, 1
handwritten p., to Alberto Cappa; letter, 1 typed p., to FTM regarding release
of Ferruccio Parri from prison.
Box 8, Folder 8
(BENEDETTA)
1950
Scope and Content Note
letter, 3 handwritten pp., to Wehrli from Zervos, 1950. letter,
1 typed p., to Zervos from Wehrli, 1950. letter, 1 typed p., to Wehrli from
Toninelli, 1950. note, handwritten on envelope, by Benedetta about Wehrli,
1950. Concerning expositions of Italian art.
Box 8, Folder 9
BENEDETTA
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 p. handwritten.
Box 8, Folder 9
NAME?
Scope and Content Note
letter, 4 handwritten pp., to Benedetta from the University of
Florence rector.
Box 8, Folder 9
OJETSI?
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 typed p., to Benedetta, 1941.
Box 8, Folder 9
(BENEDETTA)
Scope and Content Note
postcard, telegram, note.
Box 8, Folder 10
letters and postcards to Benedetta, regarding
finances
Series III.
Assorted Manuscripts and
Correspondence,
1913-1952
Physical Description:
3.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
This section of manuscripts and correspondence consists of
alphabetically organized writings to or by persons other than FTM and
Benedetta, including Futurist colleagues, friends, and family members. Alberto
Cappa correspondence (1919-1932; approx. 400 letters) consists of 2 linear ft.
Letters from Cappa's women friends comprise approximately one third of this
correspondence; there are also approximately sixty letters from Cappa's mother,
Amalia Cappa, two letters and a telegram from FTM to Cappa, twenty-five letters
from Cappa to others, and some professional correspondence. There are two
diaries by Cappa (1932,1941). The remaining material in the series (1.5 linear
ft.) consists of manifestos, essays, poems and letters from approximately
thirty individuals, including Eva Amendola (pseud. Magamal), Boccioni,
Severini, Farfa, Tato, Balla, D'Annunzio, Masnata, and several unidentified
authors. There is one flap file (Item # 216), restricted to all scholars
until 2017, containing 61 letters (1944-1952) from the Japanese Ambassador
Shirokuro Hidaka to Benedetta, 4 letters from Benedetta to Hidaka and 4 from
FTM to Hidaka.
Box 9, Folder 1
ACQUAVIVA, GIOVANNI
1948
Scope and Content Note
extract, 4 pp., "Splendore dialettale d'Italia," signed,.
Box 9, Folder 2
ALBIN, MICHEL
1935
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 typed p., to FTM.
Box 9, Folder 3
(AMBROSI)
1933
Scope and Content Note
extract, 4 pp., "5 opere futuriste di A.G. Ambrosi," by Luigi
Pesenti.
Box 9, Folder 4
AMENDOLA, EVA (pseud. MAGAMAL)
1936
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 handwritten pp., "Perche noi futuristi abbiamo il
diritto..," signed "Magamal," November 4, 1936.
Box 9, Folder 5
AMENDOLA, EVA (pseud. MAGAMAL)
1912-1919
Scope and Content Note
letter, 6 handwritten pp., to "Mafarka" (FTM), 1919. letter, 2
handwritten pp., to FTM, 1918; ms., 8 handwritten pp., poem, "Il guerriero che
torna..", signed "Magamal," 1917; ms., 4 handwritten pp., essay,"Il tradimento
nell'amore sessuale," signed "Magamal," 1917; ms., 3 handwritten pp., poem, "Il
Canto d'Amore della Donna Cosmica," signed "Magamal," 1918; ms., 60 handwritten
pp., essay, "La pazzia e la riforma del manicomio," signed "Magamal," 1913;
ms., 19 handwritten pp., essay/letter, "Certe Carezze;" letter, 2 handwritten
pp., to FTM, 1917(?); ms., 32 handwritten pp., essay, "Manuale sintetica."
Box 9, Folder 6
ANDREONI
1943
Scope and Content Note
letter, 3 handwritten pp., to FTM.
Box 9, Folder 7
ANSELMI, PIERO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 9 typed pp., thesis on "Contraddizioni critiche sul
futurismo ne "Il Novecento" di Alfredo Galletti."
Box 9, Folder 8
ASCHIERI, BRUNO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., "Poema simultaneo del giornalismo
fascista."
Box 9, Folder 9
BALLA
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 handwritten p., on Boccioni's death.
Box 9, Folder 10
BALLA; DEPERO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed pp., on Futurist aesthetics, fragment of "The
Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe" (?)
Box 9, Folder 11
BELLANOVA, PIERO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., "Enrico Prampolini -Premio Boccioni della R.
Accademia d'Italia."
Box 9, Folder 12
(BELLI, PIERO)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 typed pp., "Memoria per il Giury nella vertenza
Pirazzoli-Belli."
Box 9, Folder 13
BELLONZI, F.
1919
Scope and Content Note
ms., 20 typed pp., speech given at Piazza Bel Gioioso, Milan,
1919.
Box 9, Folder 14
BELLOTTI, LUIGI
1938
Scope and Content Note
2 handwritten pp., to FTM.
Box 9, Folder 15
BELLOTTI, LUIGI ANTONIO
1938
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., poem, "La bottega del orologio."
Box 9, Folder 16
BERNOUARD
1935
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 typed p., to "Cher Ami."
Box 9, Folder 17
BESTAUX, EUGENE
1930
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., poem, "Hommage a Marinetti," 1930; ms., 5
handwritten pp., draft of "Hommage."
Box 9, Folder 18
BOCCIONI
1912-1913
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., "Prefazione al catalogo della prima
esposizione di scultura futurista a Parigi," 1913; ms., 9 handwritten pp.,
"Préface du catalogue de l'exposition de sculpture futuriste à
Paris," 1913; ms., 9 typed pp., "Pittura Futurista," with corrections; ms., 3
typed pp., "La Scultura Futurista," 1912.
Box 9, Folder 18
BOCCIONI WITH OTHER FUTURISTS
Scope and Content Note
ms. 6 typed pp., "Manifesto des Peintres Futuristes." (appears
to be slightly altered and translated version of "La Pittura Futurists,
Manifesto Tecnico; last p. not identified).
Box 9, Folder 19
BONETTI, ALFONSO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 14 typed pp., 3 poems.
Box 9, Folder 20
BUCCAFUSCA, EMILIO
1942
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., "Col Foturista [sic] Marinetti in un villagio
cosacco," 1942.
Box 9, Folder 21
BUCCAFUSCA, EMILIO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., "Celebrità di Marinetti e del futurismo
italiano."
Box 9, Folder 22
BUZZI, PAOLO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 typed pp., "Il Futurismo nei ricordi di Paolo Buzzi,"
1950.
Box 9, Folder 23
BUZZI, PAOLO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., poem, "Mario Carli."
Box 9, Folder 24
CAPPA, ALBERTO
1932
Scope and Content Note
ms., 82 handwritten pp., diary.
Box 9, Folder 25
CAPPA, ALBERTO
1941
Scope and Content Note
W.W. II diary, 24 handwritten pp., sent to Benedetta.
Box 10, Folder 1-8
(ALBERTO CAPPA)
1922-1932
Scope and Content Note
letters from friends and family members; some professional
correspondence, approx. 400 items.
Box 12, Folder 2
from Gretchen Lee,
1929-1930
Box 12, Folder 3
from Alliccia ____?,
1927-1932
Box 12, Folder 4
from Alliccia ____?,
1927-1932
Box 13, Folder 1
letter, 1 handwritten p., from FTM, with enclosure from
Benedetta.
Box 13, Folder 1
letter, 1 handwritten p., from FTM.
Box 13, Folder 1
telegram, 1 p., from FTM, 1929.
Box 13, Folder 1
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
letter, 2 typed pp., to FTM regarding Alberto Cappa.
Box 13, Folder 1
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
letter, 6 handwritten pp., to FTM from Amaldo Cappa regarding Aurelio
Cappa.
Box 13, Folder 2
ALBERTO CAPPA
Scope and Content Note
7 letters, miscellaneous business and personal letters.
Box 13, Folder 3
from Fanny Bozzolo,
1930-1931
Box 13, Folder 4
ALBERTO CAPPA 1930
Scope and Content Note
letters to Fanny Bozzolo.
Box 13, Folder 5
from his mother,
1919-1927
Box 13, Folder 6
from his mother,
1928-1931
Box 13, Folder 8
Photos, notes, clippings found in
letters
Box 14, Folder 1
CAPRONI, GIANNI
1942
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM (from airplane manufacturer?).
Box 14, Folder 2
CAPUANA, LUIGI
1909
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 handwritten pp., letter to FTM; ms., 4 handwritten pp.,
letter.
Box 14, Folder 3
CARACCIOLO, EUGENIO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 21 handwritten pp., "L'Aeropoema del Basso Sulcis;" ms., 19
typed pp., "Il Poema del Basso Sulcis;" ms., 12 typed pp., "Falpalà"
(poem).
Box 14, Folder 4
CARRA, CARLO
1929
Scope and Content Note
letter, 1 handwritten p., 1924; ms., 1 handwritten p., letter to
FTM, 1929.
Box 14, Folder 5
CHIO, ADA (?)
1924
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM from "Art et Action."
Box 14, Folder 6
CHIOCCHIO, ANTONIO & UGO PICCONE
Scope and Content Note
ms., 37 typed pp., "Frrrrando il mondo."
Box 14, Folder 7
CINI
Scope and Content Note
note on visitor's card, 1 handwritten p., (to FTM?).
Box 14, Folder 8
CIVELLO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten pp., letter about tribute to Benedetta in
Sicily.
Box 14, Folder 9
CORRA, BRUNO
1938
Scope and Content Note
ms., 19 pp., proofs, "Marinetti poeta della parole in
libertà simultanee," with corrections.
Box 14, Folder 10
CORRA, BRUNO
1914-1915
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., letter (to FTM?); ms., 2 typed pp., letter( to
FTM?); ms., 2 typed pp., letter (to FTM?), 1914; ms., 1 handwritten p., letter
(to FTM?), 1915; ms., 3 small handwritten pp., letter (to FTM?); telegram, 1
p., (to FTM?), 1914.
Box 14, Folder 11
D'ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE
Scope and Content Note
ms., 12 handwritten pp., "(Dalla tragedia) La nave."
Box 14, Folder 12
DANZI, GUGLIEMO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 49 typed pp., "Ritratto di F.T. Marinetti."
Box 14, Folder 13
DEPERO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., letter to FTM; ms., 5 typed pp.,
"Discorso fascista-futurista."
Box 14, Folder 14
DEPERO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., preceding pp., missing.
Box 14, Folder 15
DI BOSSO, RENATO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., letter to Scrivo, with list of Futurist
writers and painters.
Box 14, Folder 16
DIVOIRE, FERNAND
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., poem.
Box 14, Folder 17
DIVOIRE
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., quotations from book by Fernand Divoire.
Box 14, Folder 18
DOTTORI
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., "La seconda mostra di plastica murale," with
corrections by Marinetti (?). 1937 (?).
Box 14, Folder 19
DUJARDIN, E
1933
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 20
FARFA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 typed pp., "Alla 'barca sbarcata'," and other poems.
Box 14, Folder 21
FARFA
1944
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., letter to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 22
FARFA
1940
Scope and Content Note
announcement, 1 handwritten p., about thirty-first anniversary
of Futurism.
Box 14, Folder 23
FORLIN, CORRADO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., manifesto, "Il Gruppo Futurista Savare ai
Combattenti di Terramarecielo;" flyer, 1 printed p., by Gruppo Futurista
Savare.
Box 14, Folder 24
GARGIULLO, MARINO
1943
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 typed pp., "Per aspera ad astra."
Box 14, Folder 25
GELLONZI, FORTUNATO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., "Purezza dell'epopea marinettiana."
Box 14, Folder 26
GIARDINA, GIACOMO
1941
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., poem, "Vanita Inglese," 1941; ms., 1 typed p.,
poem, "Instantanea di Guerra;" ms., 1 typed p., poem, "Due Vittorie."
Box 14, Folder 27
GORETTI, MARIA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 52 typed pp., "Nozze futuriste: campana di guerra con
trimotore."
Box 14, Folder 28
GOVONI, CORRADO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 handwritten pp., 3 poems.
Box 14, Folder 29
GRUPPO FUTURISTA DI MILANO
1934?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Manifesto Tecnico dell'Aeroplastica
Futurista."
Box 14, Folder 30
GRUPPO UNIVERSITARIO FASCISTA DI
FERRARA
1941
Scope and Content Note
Mss. entered in contest for young fascists: ms., 1 typed p.,
poem, "Nostalgia di Lontananza" ; ms., 2 typed pp., poem, "La casa del
deserto."
Box 14, Folder 31
HIDAKA, SHIROKURO
1952
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Le president du conseil d'un pays vaincu," on
the book "Le Troisième Richelieu" by M. Fouques Duparc, 1952.
Box 14, Folder 32
HIDAKA, SHIROKURO
1946
Scope and Content Note
ms., 12 typed pp. (two copies), "Stati d'animo di F.T.
Marinetti."
Box 14, Folder 33
HIDAKA, SHIROKURO
Scope and Content Note
Restricted until 2017.
Box 14, Folder 34
JANNELLI, GUGLIELMO
1949
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., letter to Benedetta.
Box 14, Folder 35
JARRY, ALFRED(?)
1907?
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten pp., letter to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 36
LABELLA, SILVIO & ARNALDO DE
GIOVANNI
1942
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., "Manifesto futurista dei gruppi romani 'Gondar'
e 'Duca d'Aosta."
Box 14, Folder 37
LUGNE-POE
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., letter (to FTM?).
Box 14, Folder 38
MACCARANI, GERTRUDE ALLI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed p., "L'accademico F.T. Marinetti (visto da Gertrude
Alli Maccarani)."
Box 14, Folder 39
MANULESCU(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 handwritten pp., notes about Romanian theater.
Box 14, Folder 40
MARAINI, ANTONIO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 41
MASNATA
1935
Scope and Content Note
telegram, 1 p., to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 42
MASNATA(?)
Scope and Content Note
ms., 38 handwritten pp., draft for an anthology of Fascist
poetry, poems by Pino Masnata, Bruno Sanzin, Ignazio Scurto and Ada Negri, two
page preface by Masnata (?).
Box 14, Folder 43
MASNATA(?)
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 50 small handwritten pp., "Autocarri tende muli di
futuristi A.O. (Africa occidentale)."
Box 14, Folder 44
MEI, RAFFAELLO
1942
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 typed pp. (2 copies), "Aereoterracqua."
Box 14, Folder 45
MENSI, ARTURO
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM from president of Istituto
Nazionale di Cultura Fascista, Sezione di Alessandria.
Box 14, Folder 45
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
draft of letter, 1 handwritten p., on reverse of Mensi's
letter.
Box 14, Folder 46
MICHEL, ALBIN
1935
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 47
MICHELONI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 15 pp., extract of "Il calcolo d'iperprogetto."
Box 14, Folder 48
MILAN FUTURISTS
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Manifesto Tecnico dell'Aeroplastica
Futurista."
Box 14, Folder 49
MILETTI, VLADIMIRO
1941
Scope and Content Note
ms. 7 typed pp., 6 poems.
Box 14, Folder 50
MIRT, DANILO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., poem, "Rapsodia di Guerra."
Box 14, Folder 51
MOLINARI
1938
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., letter to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 52
MOMIGLIANO
1937
Scope and Content Note
1 typed p., to FTM.
Box 14, Folder 53
MORETTI
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., letter to "Eccellenza" (FTM?).
Box 14, Folder 54
MUNARI
1950
1940
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to Benedetta.
Box 14, Folder 55
MUSSOLINI
1925
Scope and Content Note
ms., 10 typed pp., "Discorso del tre gennaio," with notes by
FTM.
Box 14, Folder 56
NICOLAI, RANIERO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Di Bosso: scultore -pittore e xilografo."
Box 14, Folder 56
DI BOSSO, RENATO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., "Riassunto autobiografico."
Box 14, Folder 57
NOTARI
1933
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 handwritten pp., letter to Benedetta. ms., 2
handwritten pp., letter to Benedetta.
Box 14, Folder 58
OLMI, R
1942
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp. (2 copies), "Sentinelle nel Donez," "Paradiso
sovietico," signed.
Box 14, Folder 59
OLMI, R
1942
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., "Polverizzazione di cavalleria cosacca nel
Donjez."
Box 14, Folder 60
ORANO
1917-1918
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., letter (to FTM?), 1917; ms., 3
handwritten pp., letter (to FTM?), 1918.
Box 14, Folder 61
ORAZI, VITTORIO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 10 typed pp., "Nuovi avviamenti della poesia italiana e
loro cause."
Box 14, Folder 62
ORESTANO
1936
Scope and Content Note
ms., 40 handwritten pp., "L'opera letteraria di Benedetta."
Box 14, Folder 62
D'AVILA
1937
Scope and Content Note
clipping, 1 p., "Opera letteraria di Benedetta vista da F.
Orestano."
Box 15, Folder 1
PAGANO
1939
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM, 1939.
Box 15, Folder 2
PERUZZI
1941
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., draft of "Plastica dell'Essenza Individuale,"
Aug.
Box 15, Folder 3
PICCIONI, SERGIO & MAURIZIO
CALVESI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., poem.
Box 15, Folder 4
PONENTE, NELLO
1958
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., "Il futurismo e il teatro."
Box 15, Folder 4
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 typed pp., "Dopo il teatro sintetico..."
Box 15, Folder 4
PRAMPOLINI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., "L'Atmosfera Scenica Futurista."
Box 15, Folder 4
ORAZI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Il teatro del colore."
Box 15, Folder 4
LUCIANI; BRAGAGLIA; CASAVOLA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., "Le sintesi visive."
Box 15, Folder 5
POSATI, PERICLE
1936
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., poems.
Box 15, Folder 6
(POUND, EZRA)
1914?
Scope and Content Note
ms., (xeroxed) 1 typed p., letter from Richard Aldington(?)
about FTM (1914?).
Box 15, Folder 7
PRAMPOLINI, ENRICO
1937
Scope and Content Note
list, 2 handwritten pp., of paintings proposed for Prampolini's
room at the Quadriennale, in Prampolini's hand with corrections (by FTM?),
1937. Blank Exposition form, 1 p., with FTM's handwriting on reverse.
Box 15, Folder 8
PRATELLA, BALILLA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 typed pp., "Manifeste des musiciens futuristes."
Box 15, Folder 9
RACHILDE
1910
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 p. proof, 3 copies, "Mafarka le Futuriste."
Box 15, Folder 10
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 9 handwritten pp., "Prefazione al volume inedito, 'La
sensibilità futurista' di Ettore Romagnoli."
Box 15, Folder 10
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Per tutte le ruote, Dramma di oggetti," on
Romagnoli.
Box 15, Folder 10
ROMAGNOLI, ETTORE
1926
Scope and Content Note
clippings, articles on Marinetti and Futurism.
Box 15, Folder 11
RUSSOLO, LUIGI
1913
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 typed pp., "L'Arte dei Rumori."
Box 15, Folder 12
RUSSOLO, MARIA
1954
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 handwritten p., letter to Benedetta, 1954; list, 6 typed
pp., of Luigi Russolo's paintings; list, 2 handwritten pp., of photos of
Russolo's paintings and of Russolo's etchings, 1954.
Box 15, Folder 13
SALADIN
1940
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., letter to FTM, with notes by FTM, 1940.
Box 15, Folder 14
SALADIN
1941
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter.
Box 15, Folder 15
SANTORO, MADDALENA
1930s?
Scope and Content Note
ms. 37 typed pp. "Gerardo Dottori e l'aeropittura futurista
umbra.".
Box 15, Folder 16
SARTORIS, ALBERTO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 typed pp., on Prampolini.
Box 15, Folder 17
SAUERWEIN, JULES
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., letter to FTM.
Box 15, Folder 18
SCAGLIA, R.
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., letter to FTM from director of magazine
Alexandria.
Box 15, Folder 19
SCAGNARDI
1940
Scope and Content Note
ms., 5 handwritten pp., "La nouvelle conquête des
étoiles."
Box 15, Folder 20
SERVRANCKX, VICTOR
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 pp. handwritten, letter to FTM, 1937; ms., 2 handwritten
pp., letter to FTM, 1937.
Box 15, Folder 21
SEVERINI & RUSSOLO
Scope and Content Note
3 metal postcards and brass name plates used in exhibitions.
Box 15, Folder 22
SEVERINI, GINO
1913-1930
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten pp., letter to FTM, 1930; ms., 12 pp. with
reproductions, catalog,"The Futurist Painter Severini Exhibits His Latest
Works," signed, 1913; ms., 4 pp., invitation to exhibition, "Gino Severini: 1re
Exposition Futuriste d'Art Plastique de la Guerre et d'autres oeuvres
antérieures," 1916; ms., invitation postcard with color print, "Oeuvres
par Gino Severini," 1919; ms., 2 handwritten pp., list of personal shows,
1913-1926.
Box 15, Folder 23
(SOMENZI)
1920s
Scope and Content Note
letters and telegrams to Mino Somenzi from various Futurists,
including Azari, Fillia, Mix, Depero, and FTM, 1920s.
Box 15, Folder 24
SORRENTO, FERNANDO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., poem, "Attacco di Madrid."
Box 15, Folder 25
STERN, ANATOL
1965
1968
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., letter to Benedetta, 1965. ms., 2 typed pp.,
letter to Benedetta, 1968.
Box 15, Folder 26
TATO & SEVERINI
1925-1926
Scope and Content Note
8 postcards.
Box 15, Folder 27
TAYLOR, JOSHUA
1964
Scope and Content Note
1 Christmas card, to Benedetta.
Box 15, Folder 27
-------?, ZERVOS
1963
Scope and Content Note
letter, 2 handwritten pp., to Benedetta.
Box 15, Folder 28
TEDESCHI, EMMA & MARIO BRANDI
1935
Scope and Content Note
ms., 54 typed pp., "La scienza del genio.".
Box 15, Folder 29
THAYAHT, RAM, THAYAHT
1932
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., "Il manifesto futurista per la moda italiana,"
with note from FTM 1932.
Box 15, Folder 30
TODOROV
Scope and Content Note
telegram, 1 p., to FTM.
Box 15, Folder 30
DONCEV, NICOLAI
Scope and Content Note
1 business card.
Box 15, Folder 31
TRIPODI, G.B. MARCIANTI
1924
Scope and Content Note
ms., 36 typed pp., "Il Senso Occulto nella 'Conquista delle
Stelle,' di F.T. Marinetti;" ms., 4 handwritten pp., letter to Comitato
Promotore per le Onoranze di F.T. Marinetti, 1924.
Box 15, Folder 32
ZAFFREDO(?), MARIO
1940
Scope and Content Note
ms., 18 typed pp., "Poema di guerra."
Box 15, Folder 33
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
clipping, 4 pp., "Influenza del Futurismo."
Box 15, Folder 34
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 23 typed pp., "Parlano fra loro della casa degna i paesaggi
dalla Giudea."
Box 15, Folder 35
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 30 handwritten pp., sketch for novel, "In virtù di
una eredità 8 personaggi si trovano in possesso di un miliardo."
Box 15, Folder 36
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
leaflet (2 copies), "Inno a Garibaldi," with note by FTM.
Box 15, Folder 37
UNKNOWN
1939
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 typed pp., response to Lajos Kassák's critique of
Futurism.
Box 15, Folder 38
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
list, 1 handwritten p., of names of Futurists who volunteered to
serve in WWII.
Box 15, Folder 39
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
writings about Futurism.
Box 15, Folder 40
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., "Idrovolante trimotore Marchetti."
Box 15, Folder 41
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 14 typed pp., "Manifesto del nuovo diritto"; ms., 1 typed
p., notes.
Box 15, Folder 41
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
1 handwritten p., notes.
Box 15, Folder 42
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., draft of article censuring critics for
defining Futurism in terms of the first manifesto.
Box 15, Folder 43
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 8 handwritten pp., reader's report for French publisher
(Sansot?) on "La nuit des indomables" (Gli Indomabili).
Box 15, Folder 44
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 typed pp., "Mostra nazionale di Plastica Murale,"
proposal for showing in Turin.
Box 15, Folder 45
UNKNOWN
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 1 typed p., letter to FTM from president of Societa
Nazionale Dante Alighieri.
Box 15, Folder 46
UNKNOWN
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 typed pp., minutes of meeting of commission awarding
prize "Al poeta originale."
Series IV.
Futurist music,
1912-1936
Physical Description:
11 scores, 1 sound recording
Scope and Content Note
The Futurist music series includes eleven handwritten or printed
scores by Pratella, Mix, Campanini, Brizzi, Windisch, Masgani, Casavola,
Cangiullo & Coioffi, and Sciorilli. There is also a 78 rpm recording by
Aldo Giuntini, "Gli eroi della nostra guerra," presented by FTM, 1936.
Box 16, Folder 1
PRATELLA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 handwritten pp., score, "Madrigali," signed.
Box 16, Folder 2
PRATELLA
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten pp., "Canzone di Mabina," for FTM's "Tamburo
di Fuoco," signed.
Box 16, Folder 3
PRATELLA 1912
Scope and Content Note
ms., 50 printed pp., score,"Teoria della Musica," dedicated to
FTM, signed.
Box 16, Folder 4
MIX, SILVIO
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., score, "Crepuscolo."
Box 16, Folder 5
CAMPANINI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 2 handwritten pp., score, "il solfeggio delle rondini."
Box 16, Folder 6
BRIZZI
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten pp., score, "Andante Patetico." (dedicated to
Benedetta.)
Box 16, Folder 7
WINDISCH
1937
Scope and Content Note
ms., 4 handwritten bound pp., score, "Ritmo Dinamico,"
choreography by Ilse Vordemberge, dedicated to FTM, signed.
Box 16, Folder 8
MASCAGNI
1928
Scope and Content Note
ms., 7 printed pp., score for poem, "Il Canto del Lavoro," by
Rossoni and Bovio, signed by poets and composer, 1928.
Box 16, Folder 9
CASAVOLA
1920
Scope and Content Note
ms., 3 printed pp., score for poem, "Gioelleria Notturna," by
Moscardelli.
Box 16, Folder 10
CASAVOLA
1929
Scope and Content Note
98 printed bound pp., score for libretto, "Il Gobbo del
Califfo," by Rossato.
Box 16, Folder 11
CANGIULLO/CIOFFI
1938
Scope and Content Note
2 printed pp., 3 copies, score, "Canzone Futurista," 1938.
Box 16, Folder 12
SCIORILLI
1931
Scope and Content Note
ms., 6 printed pp., score, "Motore Innamorato," signed,
dedicated to FTM.
Box 16, Folder 13
(BRIZZI)
Scope and Content Note
program, postcard, for concert, "Dal Poema Africano di
Marinetti."
Box 16, Folder 14
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
review, 4 printed pp., of Silvio Mix performance.
Box 17
GIUNTINI, ALDO
1936
Scope and Content Note
Sound recording, 78 rpm, "Gli eroi della nostra guerra," presented by
FTM, 1936. A cassette recording of the record is also available.
Series V.
Newspaper clippings,
ca. 1912-1944
Physical Description:
1.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Newspaper clippings belonging to FTM (and
Benedetta?) offer vivid evidence of FTM's prolific publication record first as
a poet and reviewer in France and Italy and later as a propagandist for
Fascism. Articles are organized according to subject matter and include the
following: articles by FTM, articles and proofs by FTM in French, poems by FTM
in French, articles about FTM, art images, articles about machinery and
extraordinary events, articles about FTM's debate with Hitler over Futurist
art, articles of general interest (i.e., politics or Futurism), articles for a
book on WWII that FTM planned to write.
See flat file folder for oversize items.
Box 18, Folder 1-4
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
newspaper and magazine clippings of articles by FTM.
Box 18, Folder 5
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
newspaper and magazine clippings of articles by FTM in French;
proofs of essays published in books in French.
Box 19, Folder 1
MARINETTI
Scope and Content Note
clippings from journals and proofs of poems by FTM in
French.
Box 19, Folder 2-3
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
clippings of articles about FTM.
Box 19, Folder 4
(MARINETTI & BENEDETTA)
Scope and Content Note
newspaper, magazine and journal clippings of art images.
Box 19, Folder 5
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
newspaper and magazine clippings about machinery and
extraordinary events.
Box 19, Folder 6
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
clippings about FTM's debate with Hitler over Futurist art.
Box 20, Folder 1-3
(MARINETTI & BENEDETTA)
Scope and Content Note
newspaper and magazine clippings concerning politics, futurism,
general interest.
Box 20, Folder 4-5
(MARINETTI)
Scope and Content Note
newspaper and magazine clippings for book on WWII that FTM
planned to write.
Series VI.
Lantern slides,
undated
Physical Description:
13 slides
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of lantern slides of Futurist art
work, architecture and exhibitions. (Some are damaged.)
Box 21
(MARINETTI & BENEDETTA)
Scope and Content Note
13 lantern slides of Futurist art work, architecture and
exhibitions. (some damaged).
Series VII.
Photographs,
ca. 1910-1944
Physical Description:
2.5 lin. ft.
ca. 1,000 photographs
Scope and Content Note
The archive has photographs of Futurist art, architecture, and
exhibitions, consisting of 1 1/2 linear ft., and personal photographs,
consisting of 1 linear ft. Twenty-eight Futurist artists are represented by
individual file folders of photos; many others are grouped together. Some are
signed or have explanatory notes on them. Coverage of Boccioni and Tato is
especially comprehensive, though there are many duplicate photos in these and
other files. The personal photographs portray FTM and Benedetta at various
artistic and political gatherings in the 1920s and 30s: rallies, meetings,
ceremonial dinners, military funerals, etc. Some photos of individual Futurist
colleagues are signed. There is a small number of family photographs.
Box 22-24
Photographs of Futurist painting, sculpture,
architecture, and exhibitions, some with notes by the artist or by FTM, some
signed. Organized alphabetically by artist's last name with file folders
numbered consecutively within each box.
Box 24, Folder 5
Unidentified painting and sculpture
Box 24, Folder 6
Graphics, architecture, etc.
Box 25-26
Personal photographs of Marinetti, family and colleagues,
ca. 1918-1940
Scope and Content Note
Benedetta, family
members and Futurist colleagues, primarily from the 1920s and 1930s. Three flap
files in each box.
Series VIII.
Libroni,
1904-1944
Physical Description:
119 boxes
20,000 slides, 1 vol.
Scope and Content Note
The very large scrapbooks that FTM and Benedetta compiled contain
international clippings about Futurist exhibitions, publications, and political
activities. FTM's five libroni are available on 20,000 slides organized
chronologically. Benedetta's one librone, which focusses on reviews of her
novels and paintings, and articles about her public appearances, exists in its
original form, with clippings glued into it in more or less chronological
order. Included are clippings of some of the articles and speeches that Series
II contains in draft form, such as "Donna della patria in guerra," and
"Spiritualità della donna italiana."
Box 27**
BENEDETTA
1924-1942
Scope and Content Note
librone, 1 large original volume, containing clippings about
Benedetta and her work, compiled by Benedetta, 1924-1942. Additional clippings,
left loose in the librone, have been placed in file folders and kept in the
librone box.
Box 28a
Prints made from slides of Marinetti libroni in Boxes 28-30
Box 31a
Prints made from slides of Marinetti libroni in Boxes 31-32
Box 33a
Prints made from slides of Marinetti libroni in Boxes 33-34
Box 28b
Photocopies made from slides of Marinetti libroni in Boxes 28-30
Box 28-145
MARINETTI,
1904-1944
Scope and Content Note
20,000 slides of 5 libroni (approx. 24" x 26" x 3"), containing
international clippings about Futurist exhibitions, publications, invitations,
etc., compiled by FTM, 1904-1944.
Box 28A
prints 1/1 - 1/193-11 made from slides in boxes
28-30
Box 28B
photocopies made from assorted slides
Box 96
4/806 - 4/814; 4/560 - 4/599; Vol. 4, Series 2: 4/1 -
4/40
Box 107
4/872 - 4/913; 4/601 - 4/637 (not
dupes)
Box 109
4/721 - 4/794; 4/901 - 4/903
Box 115
5/401 - 5/537; 22 unnumbered and Vol. 5, series 2:
5/1-511
Box 136
6/1198 - 6/1204; vol. 6, series 2:
6/1-6/88
Series IX.
Posters & oversized items,
1914-1956
Physical Description:
ca. 12 items
Scope and Content Note
Six posters advertise some of Marinetti's activities from 1914 to
1942, including his Russian tour, a speech at the Istituto di Cultura Fascista,
and a performance of "L'Oceano del Cuore." One poster, by Farfa, was sent to
Benedetta in 1956. There is also one page from a Russian newspaper discussing
FTM's visit to Moscow; pages from
Der Sturm featuring articles and poems by FTM; front
page photos of FTM addressing assembled "black shirts," with transcripts of his
speech to them; miscellaneous material regarding war or Futurism.
Flat file folders 1-5**
Posters, clippings, printed matter
Russian poster announcing Marinetti's tour, Moscow,
1914
Scope and Content Note
28 1/4" x 21
1/2", (repaired).
Istituto di Cultura Fascista,
1942
Scope and Content Note
"Aeropoetie Aeropittori
Futuristi della Divisione '28 Ottobre,'" Oratore: FTM, (74 1/2 x 27 1/2).
Teatro Paganini,
1927
Scope and Content Note
"Seconda Recita della Tournee del
Teatro Futurista" by FTM and "L'Oceano del Cuore," by FTM, 38 3/4" x 13 3/4".
Teatro di Condominio-Gallarate,
1927
Scope and Content Note
"L'Oceano del Cuore" di
FTM, 33 x 24 1/4".
Bernheim-Jeune,
1935
Scope and Content Note
"Les Futuristes Italiens" (including
FTM, Fillia, Prampolini, D'Albisola, Tato, etc.), 31 1/2 x 12 3/4".
Farfa, "Ceramiche Futuriste,"
1956
Scope and Content Note
addressed to Benedetta in
Farfa's handwriting.
1 Russian newspaper clipping discussing FTM's visit to
Moscow, 1914.
Oversized or deteriorating items include pages from
Der Sturm featuring articles and poems by FTM
Scope and Content Note
front page photos of FTM addressing assembled "black shirts," with transcript
of his speech to them; miscellaneous material regarding war or
Futurism.
