Renzo Provinciali (born

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, 14 March 1895; died

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, 2 October 1981), a

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by profession, was a notable Italian

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and

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. He is perhaps best known for his opposition to Marinetti’s ''

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''. In the years before the First World War he was at the heart of a group of anarchists and Futurists in

, a center for revolutionary movements. From 1912–1913 he published the anarcho-futurist journal ''La Barricata'' (''The Barricade'') (for which Carlo Carrà designed the masthead). His manifesto ''Futurism and Anarchy'', published in ''The Barricade'', attacked Marinetti on the basis that his attempt to produce an

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aesthetic was undermined by his failure to renounce bourgeois politics: ‘How is it possible to imagine a bourgeois art in an anarchist society, or a futurist art in a bourgeois society?’

References

Renzo Provinciali: Nota bio-bibliografica
(in Italian) Italian anarchists Futurist writers 1895 births 1981 deaths {{Italy-law-bio-stub