which modern art movement was initiated by the poet filippo tommaso marinetti
December 2, 1944. Bellagio, Italy. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in full Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (born Dec. 22, 1876, Alexandriaâdied Dec. 2, 1944, Bellagio, Italy) Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist, the ideological founder of Futurism, an early 20th-century literary, artistic, and political movement.