Exile La colpa di essere nati: Through the Eyes of Italian Jews Song of Exile Exile the emptiness is for however much you brought left with you, there's far more you've Exile is behind. the ego that shrinks, for how can you prove what you were and what you did? Exile is...

It is well known that the Futurists exalted speed and danger, worshipping both as god-like forces with the ability to renew the world. As a source of speed and thrill, the car was an important symbol of Futurism, one who’s symbolic impact continues to exert its influenc...

Futurism's Construction of a Phallic National Identity Italian Futurism is known best for proclamations such as: vogliamo liberare questo paese dalla sua fetida cancrena musei! di professori, d'archeologhi, di ciceroni e d'antiquarii. biblioteche! di Date fuoco i agli s...

Italo Tavolato caused a scandal when the editors of Lacerba published his “Elogio della prostituzione” in 1913, yet this article was one of a number of sexually provocative texts produced in this first phase of Futurism. The subversive and revolutionary nature of this a...

CARTE ITALIANE Alfieri and Byron In Santa Croce 's holy precincts He Ashes which make it holier, dust which Even in itself an immortality, is Though there were nothing save the past, and The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos: here repose Angelo ...

In 1977, a new Italian student movement arose which turned itself explicitly against traditional left-wing parties and unions. This reaction can be placed in what Jennifer Burns (2001) has identified as a general ‘withdrawal of [literary-political] commitment to macro-p...

Author(s): Salamanca, Emily | Abstract: As Florence became more imperially-motivated and ideologically-independent during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, Florentine humanists increasingly sought to promote the city’s allegedly autochthonous Etruscan origins,...

This article explores the legacy left by Futurism to the Neo-avant-garde and dismantles the wall erected by the neo-avant-gardists to separate themself form Marinetti's movement.

“I nostri nervi disprezzano la donna,” writes F.T. Marinetti in Uccidiamo il chiaro della luna!, “poiche noi temiamo che braccia supplici si intreccino alle nostre ginocchia la mattina della partenza!” 1 Marinetti’s intriguing exclamation, appearing in similar forms in ...