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This text of a speech given at the Costanzi Theater in Rome belongs to the start of the period when Giovanni Papini, a poet and journalist, published the literary magazine Lacerba. It marked the short-lived adherence of Papini to Futurism, before his estrangement from the movement and its founder. Benedetto Croce was a conservative moral philosopher and literary critic who disdained the Futurists. 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 ...