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In this article, L'immaginazione senza fili e le parole in libertà. Manifesto futurista (Imagination without strings and Words-in-Freedom, Futurist Manifesto), published on May 11, 1913, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti expanded on his original Futurist manifesto. Marinetti describes the effect on human beings of great scientific discoveries and technological developments such as modern systems of transportation and the printing press. He sees free verse as outmoded, and proclaims that words need to be liberated from syntax and grammatical structure: parole in libertà, or “words-in-freedom.” The text is from a collection of ...