The Florentine Vanguard of Lacerba and Portugal Futurista: Affinities and Differences

Abstract

The aim of this article is to highlight the features of the Italian Futurism, especially the Florentine Futurism of the Italian literary magazine Lacerba, that are found, mutatis mutandis, in Portugal Futurista, considered the most complete propagandist manifesto  of Futurism in Portugal. The Portuguese magazine clearly shows that the Portuguese had a deep knowledge of Italian Futurism texts, as the texts of Portugal Futurista were written in large part through the extrapolation and re-elaboration of contents developed in and from Lacerba, already divulged in all the major European countries.