Paolo Buzzi (15 February 1874,

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– 18 February 1956) was an Italian

futurist Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abou ...

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and

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Biography

Buzzi studied

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Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

, and at the same time attended

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s in

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. In 1891, he won the

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''Concorso di Poesia'' award. In 1898 with ''Rapsodie leopardiane'' his poetry career begun in ernest. In 1905 he won the title of ''Best Italian Language Poet'' in a competition in the

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''Poesia'', founded by

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 ...

and

Sem Benelli Sem Benelli (August 10, 1877 – December 18, 1949) was an Italian playwright, essayist and librettist. He provided the texts for several noted Italian operas, including Italo Montemezzi's ''L'amore dei tre re'' and ''L'incantesimo'', and Umber ...

. He started thus to write for ''Poesia'', and became a noted futurist, experimenting with poetical and theatrical form. He also tried

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. In later years he left the futurist work ethos and worked with traditional forms of poetry.

Works

*Poesie leopardiane 1898, Galli e Raimondi,

*L'esilio, 1906, Galli e Raimondi, Milan *Aeroplani, 1909, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milan *Versi liberi Treves, 1913, Milan *L'Elisse e la spirale, 1915, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milan *Bel canto", 1916, Studio Editoriale, Lombardo *Popolo, canta così! 1920, Facchi, Milan *Poema dei quarantanni, 1922, Edizioni di "Poesia", Milan *Canti per le chiese vuote, 1930,

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Campitelli *Poema di radioonde, 1940 *Atomiche, 1950 1874 births 1956 deaths Writers from Milan Futurist theatre Futurist writers Italian Futurism Modernist theatre 19th-century Italian writers 19th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian writers 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-writer-stub