Paolo Buzzi

Paolo Buzzi (15 February 1874, Milan – 18 February 1956) was an Italian futurist playwright and poet.
Biography.
Buzzi studied law in Pavia, and at the same time attended lectures in literature. In 1891, he won the milanese "Concorso di Poesia" award. In 1898 with "Rapsodie leopardiane" his poetry career begun in ernest. In 1905 he won the title of "Best Italian Language Poet" in a competition in the literary magazine "Poesia", founded by Marinetti and Sem Benelli. He started thus to write for "Poesia", and became a noted futurist, experimenting with poetical and theatrical form. He also tried filming. In later years he left the futurist work ethos and worked with traditional forms of poetry.