ABSTRACT
Futurism, which was at its most vigorous between 1909 and 1920, holds an important place among avant-garde movements in the early twentieth century. The movement was launched on 20 February 1909 with the publication of The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. The reception of futurism in Portugal is discussed here from the very first time news about it came out in the press until Marinetti's visit to Lisbon in 1932, emphasizing its greater visibility and impact on the literary and social circles. Futurism is spoken of once again, and at great length, in the Lisbon press when the magazine Orpheu was launched in March 1915. The Portuguese avant-garde experience in Lisbon comes to an end with the deaths of Santa-Rita Pintor and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and Almada Negreiros's departure for Paris in 1918.
