Marinetti (Filippo Tommaso) Student Notebooks and Other Papers, 1891-1943

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Summary

Title:

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti student notebooks and other papers,

Dates:

1891-1943

Creators:

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 1876-1944

Abstract:

Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's class notes, essays, and stories that he wrote for secondary school in Alexandria, Egypt. One notebook by Leone Marinetti. Selected correspondence, 1891-1943, with school friends and the school rector. Letters concerning the futurist enterprise from Gino Severini, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Umberto Boccioni, Mario Carli, Benedetto Croce, B. Bottai, Giovanni Pascoli, Paolo Orano, and Marinetti's French publisher Sansot.

Extent:

1.67 linear feet (4 boxes)

Language:

Collection material is in Italian

Preferred citation:

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti student notebooks and other papers, 1891-1943, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 890122.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa890122

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes class notes, essays and stories that Marinetti wrote for secondary school in Alexandria, Egypt. One notebook was written by Leone Marinetti. There is also correspondence, 1891-1936, a small amount of which is with school friends and the school rector, but most of which concerns the futurist enterprise. There are letters from Gino Severini, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Umberto Boccioni, Mario Carli, Benedetto Croce, B. Bottai, Giovanni Pascoli, and Paolo Orano, among others, and from Marinetti's French publisher Sansot. There is a small number of Marinetti's writings, primarily dramas and "syntheses," generally in typescript.

Arrangement note

The papers are organized in two series: Series I: Correspondence; Series II: Manuscripts.

Biographical / historical:

Marinetti, Italian writer, polemicist and performer, was the founder and leader of futurism. Born to Italian parents, he was educated at French schools in Alexandria and France. As an adult he lived primarily in Italy but composed his literary work in both French and Italian.

Acquisition information:

Acquired in 1989.

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Education, Secondary--Egypt--Alexandria
Experimental theater
Futurism (Art)
Futurism (Literary movement)
Diaries

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Annette Leddy.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2016-05-09T10:31-0700

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