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In his Supplemento al Manifesto tecnico della Letteratura futurista (Supplement to the technical manifesto of Futurist literature), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti moved on from theoretical principles to propose the poetics of parole in libertà (words-in-freedom), a new poetry genre freed from the usual requirements of conventional verse display and norms of grammar. The copy presented here 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 Tommaso Marinetti (1876‒1944). The goal of ...