Lacerba was an Italian literary journal based in Florence closely associated with the Futurist movement.[1] It published many Futurist manifestos by Filippo Marinetti, Antonio Sant'Elia, and others.[2]

The first Issue, in Florence, 1 January 1913

The magazine was started as a fortnightly magazine on 1 January 1913.[3][4] Its frequency was later changed to weekly.[1]

The paper had no official editor. Ardengo Soffici and Giovanni Papini were two of the principal contributors.[1][5] Lacerba ceased publication on 22 May 1915.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d Alan Bartram (2005). Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text. London: British Library. p. 117. ISBN 0-300-11432-X.
  2. ^ "Futurism". Monoskop. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. ^ Luca Somigli (2013). "Past-Loving Florence and the Temptation of Futurism. Lacerba (1913-15); Quartiere Latino (1913-14); L'Italia futurista (1916-18); and La Vraie Italie (1919-20)". In Peter Brooker; et al. (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6.
  4. ^ "Lacerba". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  5. ^ Anna Baldini (2018). "Allies and Enemies: Periodicals as Instruments of Conflict in the Florentine Avant-garde (1903–15)". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 3 (1): 11. doi:10.21825/jeps.v3i1.8103.
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