Project Gutenberg 2008-04-28 Public domain in the USA. 65 Marinetti, F. T. 1876 1944 Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Barzilai, Salvatore Cappa, Innocenzo 1875 Capuana, Luigi 1839 1915 Sarfatti, Cesare Il processo e l'assoluzione di "Mafarka il Futurista" Reading ease score: 35.5 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Il processo e l'assoluzione di 'Mafarka il Futurista'" by F. T. Marinetti is a historical account documenting a controversial trial held in early 20th-century Italy. The book centers on the trial of Marinetti, the author of "Mafarka il Futurista," accused of obscenity due to the provocative themes in his work, which ignited passionate debates among futurists and their critics. The opening of the text sets the scene for the trial, taking place on October 8, 1910, in a crowded Milanese courtroom filled with supporters and detractors of Marinetti’s avant-garde literary movement. The Public Prosecutor contends the need for a closed hearing due to indecent content, but Marinetti's defense leads a vibrant argument advocating the value of artistic expression and the necessity of portraying raw human emotions without succumbing to societal censorship. Throughout his testimony, Marinetti passionately defends the artistic merit of his work and the futurist movement, emphasizing a call for intellectual and artistic freedom. The narrative reveals tensions between traditional values and modernist ideals while foreshadowing the broader cultural discourse surrounding art and morality during this dynamic period in Italian history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) it Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 1876-1944. Mafarka le futuriste Futurism (Literary movement) PQ Text IT Legge Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature 221830 221723 2024-10-11T04:27:33.109231 2023-09-11T07:53:53.700710 text/html text/html 221823 221716 2024-10-11T04:27:33.364221 2023-09-11T07:53:53.854695 text/html text/html 165737 2024-10-11T04:27:40.938186 application/epub+zip 167844 2024-10-11T04:27:37.342227 application/epub+zip 142957 2024-10-11T04:27:35.808251 application/epub+zip 402460 2024-10-11T04:27:43.564174 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 386568 2024-10-11T04:27:40.086200 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 341387 2022-09-11T14:08:19.995001 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 202509 202450 2024-10-11T04:27:32.773255 2023-09-11T07:53:53.468705 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 200888 2021-01-03T12:49:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 76682 2021-01-03T12:49:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21151 2024-10-11T04:27:43.708161 application/rdf+xml 23109 2024-10-11T04:27:36.551192 image/jpeg 4811 2024-10-11T04:27:36.078260 image/jpeg 165109 2024-10-11T04:27:33.385229 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia it.wikipedia it.wikipedia en.wikipedia