Abstract

Mount Etna, the highest and most active volcano in Europe, has always attracted writers from all over the world, as shown in Catasto Magico (1999), in which Italian philologist and literary critic Maria Corti produced a “literary history” of Etna from antiquity to the present day. Her book, however, does not discuss Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Futurist movement. The more recent L’imaginaire du volcan (2016), edited by François Sylvos and Marie‐Françoise Bosquet, is likewise silent on the subject. This paper aims, therefore, to fill this gap and to trace the presence of the theme of the volcano and, in particular, of Mount Etna, in Marinetti’s oeuvre, as well as to propose some interpretative hypotheses about the horizon of meaning with which Etna is invested in the futurist production of the writer