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The Lloyd Hotel in Rijeka, Marinetti's Hotel
Fiume is truly beautiful. Sad, tired, worn out, but still intriguing and fascinating, despite every corner, every alley, every forgotten or ignored building crying out for attention and help. To tell the truth, some, mainly used as restaurants/trattorias/fast-food, shops or offices, have been recovered and revalued. Many others, however, silently wait their turn, if it ever comes. As you pass by it is difficult to imagine them teeming with people circulating in their atriums, who stop to chat or read the paper in the elegant cafés, who get drunk on the Fiume air and don't want to leave. In fact, that's exactly how the...
Marinetti's Fiume diary
Guido Andrea Pautasso (edited by), Diario Fiumano. Fillippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italia Storica, Genoa 2020, 152 pp. The Diario Fiumano by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published here by the Associazione Italia Storica consists of the pages of the original Marinetti Notebooks from the period from 13 to 30 September 1919 and between 2 October 1919 and 3-5 September 1920, illustrating the departure for Fiume and the frenetic days spent there by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Futurists, between enthusiastic proclamations to the Legionaries of Fiume, the electrifying atmosphere of the "City of Life" and his contrasting intellectual and human relationships with Gabriele D'Annunzio and the leading personalities of the...
Marinetti's Fiume Poem
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Poema di Fiume, Eclettica, Massa 2019 - with contributions by Nuccio Bovalino and Emanuele Merlino In this poem, which has remained unpublished until now, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dedicates to the Fiume enterprise a composition that crosses prose and poetry in the perfect Marinettian and futurist style, all in one breath, without punctuation, without particular rules other than the energy to be released, with emphatic repetitions and self-celebrations. The Ronchi march, the 'Holy Entry' into Fiume, the Grenadiers, the daring journey to the 'City of Life', the Christmas of Blood and above all Italy: "the only woman to be eternally loved". A work by a...
