Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics is a full-length political biography of the leader of the Italian Futurist art movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti from the foundation of Futurism in 1909 through its end in the Fascist regime in 1944.

Introduction
-Historiography of Political Futurism
-Roots of Marinetti's Politics
-An Overview of the Book

Chapter 1: From the Foundation to the Crisis of Caporetto, 1909-1918
-The Foundation and Early Politics
- The Libyan War and the Nationalization of Marinetti's Politics
- Interventionism and War: Nationalist Apotheosis and the Re-emergence of Radicalism in Marinetti's Politics
- The Manifesto of the Futurist Political Party

Chapter 2: Futurist Politics in Action, Summer 1918-May 1920
-Political Futurism Formalized
-Fascism, Disillusionment, and the D'Annunzian Alternative
-The Fall Political Campaign and the Abandonment of Fascism

Chapter 3: The Return to Fascism, 1920-1925
-Marinetti: Isolated
-Marinetti: Dicianovista

Chapter 4: Building the Dictatorship, 1925-1929
-Marinetti and the Dictatorship
-Battling Right-Wing Fascism
-Marinetti Accademico: The Loyal Radical

Chapter 5: Working Towards the Duce, 1929-1937
-Working Towards the Duce: Futurist Initiatives in the Thirties
-The Ethiopian War

Chapter 6: Isolation and Impotence, 1930-1939
-The Perils of Being "Too Fascist"
-The Consequences of "Not Being Fascist Enough"

Chapter 7: Living and Dying with the Regime: Marinetti in World War Two, 1939-1944
-Marinetti in War
-Marinetti at the End: Salò

Conclusion