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French dancer, writer, and painter Anne-Jeanne-Valentine-Marianne Desglans de Cessiat-Vercell (better known under the pseudonym Valentine de Saint-Point, 1875‒1953) wrote her Manifesto della Donna futurista (Manifesto of the Futurist woman) in 1912. In this second manifesto, published the next year, the author expands on her vision of femininity, and writes of desire as beyond moral concepts and as an essential element of the dynamism of life. It is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 ...