Amalia Guglielminetti futurist

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyse the influence of Futurist aesthetics in the articles written by the writer Amalia Guglielminetti in the magazine Le Seduzioni, which she founded and edited. Its pages reflect her friendship with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and with other Futurist writers who collaborated with her magazine, but above all the editorials she wrote under the heading “Con mani di velluto” reflect some of the characteristics of this movement, such as the provocative attitude, the anti-romantic and sarcastic conception of love, and the presence of a series of female characters who drive cars and symbolise speed and modernity. Even so, the futurist tendency contrasts with the decadent tendency of our author, who turns Le Seduzioni into a space in which different aesthetics of the late 19th and early 20th century form a symbolic battlefield, especially with regard to the representation of the writer as a new figure in the cultural field, and of the female characters.