FUTURISM AND THE FUTURISTS - Emilio Settimelli

Emilio Settimelli

Emilio Settimelli was born on 20 August 1891 in Florence. He was a writer and journalist, but also a poet, dramatist and publisher.

Together with Remo Chiti and the brothers Ginna and Corra he created an avant-garde group celebrating cerebrismo that upheld art was the manipulation of cerebral data.

In 1914 he joined the Futurist group that would later be centred around the journal L'Italia Futurista which included Chiti, Ginna and Corra. This same year he published, with Corra, the manifesto on criticism Weights, Measures and Prices of Artistic Genius.

Emilio Settimelli, 1916

In 1915 was one of those responsible for the birth of the Futurist synthetic theatre publishing, with Marinetti and Corra, the manifesto Futurist Synthetic Theatre containing several of his sintesi or theatrical syntheses.

In 1916 he worked on the film Vita Futurista (Futurist Life) with the Florentine Futurist group. This same year he co-signed, with Ginna, Mario Carli, Neri Nannetti, Oscar Mara and Remo Chiti, the Manifesto of Futurist Science published in L'Italia Futurista, Florence, on 15 June.

After 1922 he worked exclusively as a journalist but continued to claim the status of an 'independent' Futurist. In 1930 he edited the newspaper L'Impero with Carli and then its sequel Oggi e Domani. He was eventually exiled by the Fascist regime. He died on 12 February 1954 at Lipari.