Futurist Aristocracy, No. 1 (1923)
| Author | N. L. Castelli (ed.) |
|---|---|
| Published | April 1923 |
| Format | Article |
TL;DR — The single English-language issue of Nanni Leone Castelli’s New York Futurist magazine, April 1923: manifestos, poems and images celebrating speed and the city.
Issue No. 1, April 1923, edited by N. L. Castelli in New York The masthead credits “Trampolini, Rome,” and the issue reproduces works including Charles Sheeler’s Skyscrapers of New York. It opens with “Speed City,” a breathless account of racing an Isotta Fraschini up Fifth Avenue, complete with typographic engine noises.
A rare-book dealer’s listing describes it as the only issue of Castelli’s initiative and notes it carried a Marinetti text written for it. Yale’s Beinecke Library holds copies under the Italian title Aristocrazia Futurista.
What it is: a rare primary source of Italian Futurism’s attempt to plant itself in America. Public domain by age; no open digitised copy was found to link.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
20 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.