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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto, and a group of like-minded artists, dropped manifestoes from the top of the Campanile into the Piazza San Marco.

Yes, that fierce Italian existed; he was Filippo Marinetti, the founder of Futurism, and later a fascist.

The futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti once put glue on a theater audience’s seats?

Founded in 1909 by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, futurists glorified technology and abhorred political and artistic movements that were rooted in historical tradition.

She also noted that in the manifesto Marinetti praised war and violence "but not as an internationalist activity."