Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Venezianella e Studentaccio [Venezianella and Studentaccio]

Patrizio Ceccagnoli (University of Kansas)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1944

Places

Italy (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Venezianella e Studentaccio [The Venetian Girl and the Rebellious Student] is a posthumous work from the late career of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), founder of the Italian avant-garde movement called Futurismo [Futurism] (1909-1944). It was only four years after the international centennial anniversary of the foundation of Futurism that Venezianella e Studentaccio, one of the last major works by Marinetti, was finally published posthumously in 2013 (Milan: Mondadori).

Several decades after its composition – it was written between the autumn of 1943 and the spring of 1944 – this boisterous, cutting-edge example of lyrical prose still awaits a full critical assessment. The b…

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Citation: Ceccagnoli, Patrizio. "Venezianella e Studentaccio". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 September 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34365, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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