Lacerba was an Italian literary journal based in Florence closely associated with the Futurist movement. It published many Futurist manifestos by Filippo Marinetti, Antonio Sant'Elia, and others. The magazine was started as a fortnightly magazine on 1 January 1913. Its frequency was later changed to weekly. The paper had no official editor. Ardengo Soffici and Giovanni Papini were two of the principal contributors. Lacerba was one of the foremost avant-garde publications of early 20th-century Italy. Among its collaborators were Dino Campana, Aldo Palazzeschi, Corrado Govoni, Piero Jahier, Gius
Lacerba was an Italian literary journal based in Florence closely associated with the Futurist movement. It published many Futurist manifestos by Filippo Marinetti, Antonio Sant'Elia, and others. The magazine was started as a fortnightly magazine on 1 January 1913. Its frequency was later changed to weekly. The paper had no official editor. Ardengo Soffici and Giovanni Papini were two of the principal contributors. Lacerba was one of the foremost avant-garde publications of early 20th-century Italy. Among its collaborators were Dino Campana, Aldo Palazzeschi, Corrado Govoni, Piero Jahier, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Guillaume Apollinaire.
== Bacground == The journal took its title from Cecco d'Ascoli's fourteenth-century poem Acerba. A staunch opponent of Dante and a victim of the Medieval Inquisition, Cecco d'Ascoli was seen as an anti-establishment symbol. In its first issue, the magazine set out its programme, calling for the complete freedom and autonomy of art, the anarchic exaltation of 'genius' and the 'übermensch', and a complete renewal of literature. Papini wrote provocative articles attacking the conformism of contemporary culture; Soffici wrote about artistic avant-gardes, such as Futurism and Cubism; Palazzeschi contributed irreverent poems such as 'A Little Crystal House', 'Postille' and 'Pizzicheria'; Italo Tavolato wrote iconosclastic articles such as 'In Praise of Prostitution' and 'Blasphemy Against Democracy'.
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