Mario Carli was an Italian

Italy

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 poet, novelist, essayist, diplomat, and journalist.

Life

Carli was born in San Severo

San Severo

San Severo is a city and comune of 55,486 inhabitants of the province of Foggia in the southern Italian region of Apulia....

, Apulia

Apulia

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, to Florentine father and Apulian mother.

He spent his formative years in Florence

Florence

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, where he met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...

 in the 1910s, and adhered to Futurism

Futurism (art)

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city...

 as a member of the so-called pattuglia azzurra ("Azure

Azure (color)

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 platoon

Platoon

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"). After fighting in World War I

World War I

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, he engaged in favor of the Arditi

Arditi

Arditi was the name adopted by Italian Army elite storm troops of World War I. The name derives from the Italian verb Ardire and translates as "The Daring Ones"....

, and reached Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist...

 during the latter's political experiment in occupied Fiume

Free State of Fiume

The Free State of Fiume was an independent free state which existed between 1920 and 1924. Its territory of comprised the city of Fiume and rural areas to its north, with a corridor to its west connecting it to Italy.-History:Fiume gained autonomy for the first time in 1719 when it was proclaimed...

 in 1919. Carli then supported the militant anti-fascist Arditi del Popolo

Arditi del Popolo

The Arditi del Popolo was an Italian militant anti-fascist group founded at the end of June 1921 to resist the rise of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party and the violence of the Blackshirts paramilitaries...

, created in 1920.

A successful journalist, Carli adhered to Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

's Fascist movement

Fascism

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 the moment it started; he and his friend Emilio Settimelli published the intimidating newspaper L’Impero. Nonetheless, he proved to be a dissident

Dissident

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, and joined the field of those considered "left-wing fascists". In the 1930s, Carli was Italy's consul general in Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

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, Brazil

Brazil

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.

Tormented by illness, he died prematurely in Rome

Rome

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.

Works

Carli wrote extensively, producing works like the experimental novel Retroscena ("Background"; 1915), and the memoir Con d’Annunzio a Fiume ("With D’Annunzio in Fiume"; 1920). In 1923 he published La mia divinità ("My Divinity"), a text in which he gathered his poetry, small poems in prose

Prose

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 among which stands out Notti filtrate ("Filtered Nights") - a pre-Surrealist

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....

 piece of importance.

The writings express Carli's conviction in life as energy, an egoistical

Egotism

Egotism is "characterized by an exaggerated estimate of one's intellect, ability, importance, appearance, wit, or other valued personal characteristics" – the drive to maintain and enhance favorable views of oneself....

effort at realising oneself against all odds and perils.