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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of the Futurist Manifesto

The poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes the Manifesto of Futurism (Italian : Manifesto del Futurismo) and initiates an artistic philosophy, Futurism, rejecting the past, and celebrating speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it also advocates the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. In February 1909 the manifesto was published in one of Europe's main newspapers, Le Figaro . [1]

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January

The government struggles to get relief aid to Messina and Calabria after the earthquake on December 28, 1908. [2]

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December

Sports

Naples FBC wins the first Lipton Challenge Cup, a football competition competed between clubs from Southern Italy and Sicily. [5]

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References

  1. Clark, Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, p. 209
  2. Homeless Ones Fight For Food; Few Get Relief, The New York Times, January 2, 1909
  3. Italian Ministry Wins In Elections; Premier Giolitti Gets Large Majority in New Chamber of Deputies Chosen, The New York Times, March 8, 1909
  4. Childs, Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War Over Libya, 1911–1912, pp. 8–11
  5. Lipton Challenge Cup by Roberto Quartarone on RSSSF