(FUTURISM) Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Lo splendore geometrico

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(FUTURISM.) Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. Lo splendore geometrico e meccanico e la sensibilita numerica. Manifeste futuriste, Milan, Direction du Mouvement Futuriste. 4 pages. 292x232 mm; 11 1/2x9 1/8 inches, folded, central horizontal crease. Published by Direzione del Movimento Futurista; printed by A. Taveggia. Milan, 18 March 1914

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Marinetti's attack on "gaga beauty" and a defense of geometric and metaphysical beauty. The first part (to paragraph 7) was first published in the Lacerba"(II, no. 6, 15 March 1914) under the title Lo splendore geometrico e meccanico nelle parole in liberta. The second part (without the last sentence referring to Mallarme), was published in the following issue (no. 7, 1 April 1914) , under the title Onomatopee astratte e sensibilita numerica. The complete text was published as leaflet, in French and Italian, with the date of 11 March for the French version and of 18 March for the Italian one.