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Futurismo - Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso

8 souls in a bomb, 1919

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Milan, futurist editions of "Poesia", 1919. In 8°. Copy with burnishing, last leaves detached, paperback printed in black and with and with a reproduction in red of a beautiful free-word table on the front cover, detached plates, stains .
Original edition. The 8 souls are the components of the explosive mixture, enclosed in a 92-kilo bomb, manufactured by Marinetti, which will explode against "the same filthy Austro-German minestrone full of cholera, lice, moralistic priests, spies, professors and policemen". Salaris, Bibliography, p. 48, with reproduction; Salaris, History, p. 109; Fanelli-Godoli, Futurism and graphics, pl. 1; Cammarota, Marinetti ("rare"), p. 69.