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INVENTORY OF THE FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI STUDENT NOTEBOOKS AND OTHER
PAPERS, 1891-1943
890122
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Title: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti student notebooks and other papers
Date (inclusive): 1891-1943
Collection number: 890122
Creator:
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 1876-1944
Extent:
1.67 linear feet
(4
boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's class notes, essays, and stories that he wrote for secondary school in Alexandria, Egypt. One
notebook by Leone Marinetti. Selected correspondence, 1891-1943, with school friends and the school rector. Letters concerning
the futurist enterprise from Gino Severini, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Umberto Boccioni, Mario Carli, Benedetto Croce, B. Bottai,
Giovanni Pascoli, Paolo Orano, and Marinetti's French publisher Sansot.
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Language: Collection material in Italian
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Library Rights and Reproductions
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti student notebooks and other
papers, 1891-1943, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
890122.
Acquired in 1989.
Microfiche available of the eight notebooks in which Marinetti
recorded secondary school philosophy lectures.
Marinetti, Italian writer, polemicist and performer, was the founder
and leader of futurism. Born to Italian parents, he was educated at French
schools in Alexandria and France. As an adult he lived primarily in Italy but
composed his literary work in both French and Italian.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes class notes, essays and stories that Marinetti
wrote for secondary school in Alexandria, Egypt. One notebook was written by
Leone Marinetti. There is also correspondence, 1891-1936, a small amount of
which is with school friends and the school rector, but most of which concerns
the futurist enterprise. There are letters from Gino Severini, Gabriele
D'Annunzio, Umberto Boccioni, Mario Carli, Benedetto Croce, B. Bottai, Giovanni
Pascoli, and Paolo Orano, among others, and from Marinetti's French publisher
Sansot. There is a small number of Marinetti's writings, primarily dramas and
"syntheses," generally in typescript.
Arrangement
The papers are organized in two series:
Series I:
Correspondence
;
Series
II: Manuscripts
.
Education, Secondary—Egypt—Alexandria
Experimental theater
Futurism (Art)
Futurism (Literary
movement)
Diaries
Boccioni, Umberto, 1882-1916
Bottai, B.
Carli, Mario, 1889-1935
Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952
D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938
Orano, Paolo, 1875-
Pascoli, Giovanni, 1855-1912
Severini, Gino, 1883-1966
Editions Sansot