Filippo Marinetti and futurismFilippo Marinetti is an Italian poet who launched the futurist artistic movement. Filippo Marinetti spent the first years of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. Marinetti discovered his love for literature during his school years. Building on this fascination, he created a school magazine, Papyrus; which almost earned him his expulsion for his scandal. Later he obtained a law degree at the Università degli Studi di Genova. Although he earned a law degree, he decided never to become a lawyer and therefore chose to pursue a literary career. In 1898, Marinetti published poetry for the first time, the work was entitled Les Vieux Marins. In 1907, Marinetti visited the Abbey of Créteil, which greatly influenced his futurist ideas. And now Marinetti is best known for being the founder of Futurism by publishing the Futurism Manifesto in 1909. He also had his share of influence on people. Since Marinetti also made Futurism known abroad, another type of style was influenced, Cubo-Futurism. Cubo-futurism is the result of the fusion of cubism and futurism. Even Dadaism and...