Filippo Marinetti and FuturismFilippo Marinetti is an Italian poet who started the futurist artistic movement. Filippo Marinetti spent the first years of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. Marinetti discovered his love for literature during his school years. With this fascination he founded a school magazine, Papyrus; which then almost earned him expulsion for his scandal. He subsequently graduated in law from the University of Genoa. Despite having a law degree, he decided never to become a lawyer and chose to pursue a literary career. In 1898 Marinetti published poems for the first time, the work was entitled Les Vieux Marins. In 1907 Marinetti visited the Abbey of Créteil, this greatly influenced Marinetti's futurist ideas. And now Marinetti is best known for being the founder of Futurism by publicizing the Futurist Manifesto in 1909. He also had his fair share of influence on people. Since Marinetti also publicized futurism abroad, he was influenced by another type of style, cubofuturism. Cubo-futurism is the result of the fusion of cubism and futurism. Also Dadaism and...