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The course will explore Futurism, the first great avant-garde movement in modern European history, and its vast and mostly unknown literary production. We will analyze Futurism in its social, literary, and historical background, as well as in its artistic contributions to Italian and European culture. We will focus on Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876 - 1944), founder of the movement and cornerstone of all its diverse souls and manifestations, and analyzing his manifestos, poetry, novels, tales and plays, we will shed light on the peculiarity of a movement that acted as the initial spark, and has given shape to the following literary and artistic avant-gardes of the XX Century. The final project for the course can be either a paper or a translation project. Reading knowledge of Italian is suggested.