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This article examines a broad body of work by the Futurist poet and broadcaster Luciano Folgore. In particular, it discusses Folgore's focus and emphasis on the mechanical body of Pinocchio. Spanning Folgore's long and eclectic career, this emphasis is seen in the wider context of a Futurist advocacy of technology and machines in the early years of the twentieth century. Archived and preserved in the John Paul Getty Research Institute and Library in Los Angeles, Folgore's copious output engages in sustained manners with Pinocchio's mechanic nature, fixating in particular on his robotic nose, a marker of the puppet's mechanical identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
