Gino Cantarelli was an Italian

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 Dadaist poet

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 and painter

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 of the early 20th century. He was associated first with Futurism

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, then with Dada

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. He often wrote his poems in French

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From 1917 to 1920 he published the journal Procellaria

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, together with Aldo Fiozzi, a journal which combined Futurist and Dadaist tendencies. In 1920 the two ediors joined with Julius Evola

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 to publish Bleu

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, which was devoted entirely to Dada and which appeared in Mantua

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like the earlier journal.