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Written in 1913 before the first elections in Italy with full male suffrage, the article presented here promotes the anticlericalism, antisocialism, irredentism, and supremacy of Italy espoused by the Futurists. It argues for progress, speed, and heroism, and against museums, academies, and government interference in the arts. 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 of the Futurists was to discard the ...