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Monday November 02, 2009
 | Symposium marks anniversaries of avant-gardes authors |
On October 9-10, 2009, the symposium Marinetti and Ungaretti: Futurisms and Avant-Gardes took place at the French House and at the Pyle Center.
The year 2009 marks the centenary of the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinettis manifesto of foundation of Futurism and the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Giuseppe Ungarettis collected poems.The two authors — born in Alexandria of Egypt by Italian parents — at the beginning of the 20th Century moved to Paris, where they both started writing poems in French and translating French poets into Italian.
Marinetti and Ungaretti played an important role in promoting the avant-gardes in Europe in the first half of the 20th Century.
Organized by Ernesto Livorni with the generous support of Anonymous Fund, Center for the Humanities, Center for European Studies, Italian Institute of Culture in Chicago and the Department of French and Italian, the event was also sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Visual Culture Center, Department of Theater and Drama, Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Art History.
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