Bruno Corra

Born Bruno Ginanni Corradini in Ravenna in 1892, he wrote under the name Bruno Corra and became one of the figures associated with early Italian Futurism. Treccani describes him as having his strongest period within the first Futurist movement, where he worked not only as a writer but also as a theorist and essayist.

His name is especially linked to Futurist experiments in theater and cinema. Treccani notes his role in the manifestos of Teatro futurista sintetico (1915) and La cinematografia futurista (1916), alongside his work as a dramatist and narrator, including Sam Dunn è morto from 1917.

He continued publishing well beyond that first avant-garde phase, with a very large body of later work that included plays and narrative writing, some of which were adapted for film. He died in Varese in 1976.