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Lo splendore geometrico e meccanico e la sensibilità numerica (Mechanical and geometrical splendor and sensitivity toward numbers) is a manifesto published in 1914 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in which he expands on the features of Futurist writing, particularly the expressive power of parole in libertà (words-in-freedom) and suggests ways to increase lyricism in writing. 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 Tommaso Marinetti (1876‒1944). The goal ...