Omero Vecchi (18 June 1888 – 24 May 1966), known by his pen name Luciano Folgore, was an Italian poet.

Biography

Luciano Folgore wrote poems using pen names from a young age. Particularly appreciated by

Filippo Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye d ...

he adhered to

Futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such ...

and some of his poems were published in the Anthology ''I poeti futuristi'' (1912). He collaborated with the historical magazines ''

Lacerba ''Lacerba'' was an Italian literary journal based in Florence closely associated with the Futurist movement. It published many Futurist manifestos by Filippo Marinetti, Antonio Sant'Elia, and others. The magazine was started as a fortnightly ...

'' and '' La voce''. He also contributed to satirical magazine '' Il Travoso'' in the 1930s. In his

futuristic The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ...

collection of poetry ''Il canto dei motori'' (1912) he used a traditional, decadent language to describe the modern world of machines.

Works

Poetry

*''Il canto dei motori'', Edizione di "Poesia",

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, 1912 *''Ponti sull'Oceano'', Edizione di "Poesia", Milan, 1914 *''Città veloce'', Edizione "La Voce",

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, 1919 *''Poeti controluce'', F. Campitelli,

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, 1922 *''Poeti allo specchio'', F. Campitelli, Foligno, 1926 *''Musa vagabonda'', F. Campitelli, Foligno, 1927 *''Liriche'', F. Campitelli, Foligno, 1930 *''Il libro degli epigrammi'', F. Campitelli, Rome, 1932 *''Favolette e strambotti'', Ceschina, Milan, 1934 *''Novellieri allo specchio''; parodie di D'Annunzio e altri, Ceschina, Milan, 1935 *''Mamma voglio l'arcobaleno. Poesie per bambini, grandi e piccini'', Magi-Spinetti, Rome, 1947

Prose

*''Graffa'', l'impermeabile, Mondadori, Milan, 1923 *''Nuda ma dipinta'', F. Campitelli, Foligno, 1924 *''La città dei girasoli'',

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, Milan, 1924 *''La trappola colorata'', Milan, 1934

References

Bibliography

* Pietro Pancrazi, ''Futurismo, Luciano Folgore'', in «Adriatico», 10 ottobre 1912. * Giuseppe De Robertis, ''Luciano Folgore'', in «La Voce», gennaio 1916. *

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e Pietro Pancrazi, ''Poeti d'oggi (1900-1920)'', Firenze, Vallecchi, 1920. *

Emilio Cecchi Emilio Cecchi (14 July 1884 – 5 September 1966) was an Italian literary critic, art critic and screenwriter. One English language source describes him as "an 'official' - although radically anti-academic - intellectual". He was made artistic ...

, ''Poeti controluce'', in «La tribuna», 6 ottobre 1922. * Francesco Flora, ''Dal Romanticismo al Futurismo'', Milano, Mondadori, 1925. * Pietro Pancrazi, ''Poeti allo specchio'', in «Corriere della sera», 17 marzo 1926. * Giovanni Titta Rosa, ''Parodisti'', in «Fiera letteraria», 20 maggio 1927. * Luigi Tonelli, ''Luciano Folgore'', in «L'Italia che scrive», agosto-settembre 1935. * Lionello Fiumi, ''Parnaso amico. Saggio su alcuni poeti italiani del secolo XX'', Genova, Edizioni Emiliano degli Orfini, 1942. * Mario Apollonio, ''Letteratura dei contemporanei'', Brescia, La Scuola, 1956. *

Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti (; 14 September 1929 – 9 April 2017) was an Italian academic, literary critic and poet. He taught at the University of Turin from 1967 until his death in 2017. He was considered to be one of the most important li ...

, ''Folgore Luciano'', in ''Grande dizionario enciclopedico'', Torino, UTET, 1956. * Giovanni Titta Rosa, ''Il Futurismo e Folgore'', in «Osservatore politico-letterario», settembre 1958. *

Elio Filippo Accrocca Elio Filippo Accrocca (17 April 1923 – 11 March 1996) was an Italian poet, author, and translator. Having been born in Cori, Lazio, Accrocca studied at the University of Rome under the modernist poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, who remained a cor ...