Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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1. When was Filippo Tommaso Marinetti born?December 22, 1876
2. Where was Filippo Tommaso Marinetti born?Alexandria, Egypt
3. What is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti known for?Founder of the Futurist movement and author of its foundational manifesto
4. What is the associated ideologies?Futurism, co-author of the Fascist Manifesto (1919)
5. Who was Filippo Tommaso Marinetti?He was an Italian poet born in 1876 in Alexandria, Egypt. Marinetti started the Futurist art movement and loved speed and new ideas.
6. What is Futurism?Futurism is an art movement that celebrates fast machines, bright cities, and fresh, bold art. It was founded by Marinetti in 1909.

Futurism: An avant-garde movement originating in Italy that celebrated dynamism, speed, technology, violence, and the machine age.
Manifesto of Futurism: Marinetti's 1909 declaration that articulated the movement's radical principles, advocating for a complete break with the past.
Words-in-freedom (Parole in libertà): Marinetti's experimental poetic technique that liberated words from traditional syntax, using visual arrangement and onomatopoeia.
Avant-garde: New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature that are ahead of their time.