Francesco Cangiullo

Francesco Cangiullo was born in Naples in 1884, son of a well known wood sculptor. He initiated classical studies, at his mother's wish but gave them up to dedicate himself to poetry. In addition to collections of verse, he published novels, short stories and works for the theatre, and contributed to magazines such as "Lacerba" and "La Fiera Letteraria and to newspapers: "It Tempo", "It Mattino", "Il Giornale d'Italia". He embraced futurism with enthusiasm and brought to the movement the fruits of his fertile inventiveness: pentagrammed poetry, surprise alphabet, humanized letters, surprise theatre. He withdrew in 1924 and continued more independently his work as a writer and poet. He lives at Livorno and Still continues to contribute literary leading articles to the Roman newspaper "It Tempo".