Benedetta Cappa Marinetti e Růžena Zàtkovà: due futuriste tra sperimentalismo e teosofia

Abstract

Benedetta Cappa (1897–1977), wife of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and a pupil of Giacomo Balla, was an artist, a writer, a theorist who made a significant contribution to the history of the avant-garde and to the artistic research of  the early Twentieth Century. His pictorial and literary production is nourished  by a strong idealistic aspiration, which finds support and inspiration in the
contemporary milieu of esoteric irrationalism, whose different currents were  well known even by many futurists. She herself, moreover, since her formative  years, was in close contact with environments and personalities permeated  with theosophical ideals, especially, among others, with the Bohemian artist Růžena Zàtkovà and with Balla himself.