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Three years after publishing his Fondazione e manifesto del futurismo (Futurist constitution and manifesto), the author Filippo Tommaso Marinetti moved on from theoretical principles to propose the poetics of parole in libertà (words-in-freedom) in this manifesto published on May 11, 1912. Words-in-freedom was a new poetry genre freed from the usual requirements of conventional verse display and norms of grammar. The text is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo ...