Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Ernest Ialongo is associate professor of history at Hostos Community College, CUNY.

• Introduction-Historiography of Political Futurism-Roots of Marinetti’s Politics-An Overview of the BookChapter 1: From the Foundation to the Crisis of Caporetto, 1909–1918-The Foundation and Early Politics- The Libyan War and the Nationalization of Marinetti’s Politics- Interventionism and War: Nationalist Apotheosis and the Re-emergence of Radicalism in Marinetti’s Politics- The Manifesto of the Futurist Political PartyChapter 2: Futurist Politics in Action, Summer 1918–May 1920-Political Futurism Formalized-Fascism, Disillusionment, and the D’Annunzian Alternative-The Fall Political Campaign and the Abandonment of FascismChapter 3: The Return to Fascism, 1920–1925-Marinetti: Isolated-Marinetti: DicianovistaChapter 4: Building the Dictatorship, 1925–1929-Marinetti and the Dictatorship-Battling Right-Wing Fascism-Marinetti Accademico: The Loyal RadicalChapter 5: Working Towards the Duce, 1929–1937-Working Towards the Duce: Futurist Initiatives in the Thirtie

Scholars of Futurism, Fascism, twentieth-century Italian history and culture, and political theory will find this book interesting and thought-provoking. Drawing from a number of published and unpublished sources, Ialongo manages to give a limpid and unapologetic analysis of Marinetti’s political activity and of his links to Fascism, at times also exploring its darker and less comfortable sides. The constant dialogue between radicalism and nationalism is not just the underlying concept of the book, but the key that allows the author to shed light on Marinetti’s political experience from a new perspective.