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biography
pronunciation:
[papeenee]
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| (1881–1956)
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| Writer, born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. He began his career as an iconoclast anarchist and interventist, and was one of the leading lights of Futurism. He founded the review Leonardo with Giuseppe Prezzolini (1903) and Lacerba with Ardengo Soffici (1913). Of this period are Il crepuscolo dei filosofi (1907), the autobiographical Un uomo finito (1913), and the poems Cento pagine di poesia (1915) and the famous Stroncature (1916). In 1921 he converted to Catholicism and from this time his work often showed religious themes, as in Storia di Cristo (1921), Sant'Agostino (1929), and Il diavolo (1953). He also wrote literary essays, Dante vivo (1933) and satires, Gog (1931). |
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