... The chapter is made up of the afterword to the Italian edition of The Black Jacobins (December 2005). It is translated and published here in English for the first time. Written by the respected novelist of the Haitian Revolution Madison Smartt Bell, the chapter describes the writer’s encounter...

...Preface to the Italian Edition ...

... This chapter looks at Italian futurism as a founding aesthetic revolution of the twentieth century. The chapter first argues that futurism is to be situated within a longer history, taking off with romanticism, which presents the inclusion of (so far) “ugly” or inaesthetic objects into art...