Giovanni Papini
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Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he wa
Papini in 1921
Giovanni Papini's house in Florence
"Caricature of Papini", by Carlo Carrà & Ardengo Soffici, from Broom, 1922.
Drawing of Papini, by Julius Zirinsky.
Mina Loy
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Mina Loy was a British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognitio
Giovanni Papini
…unjustly forgotten" and included some of his stories in the Library of Babel. Papini appears as a character in several poems of the period written by Mina Loy, who had an affair with him. Wallace Stevens wrote a poem called "Reply to Papini…
Loy (centre) with Jane Heap and Ezra Pound in Paris, c. 1923
Consider Your Grandmother's Stays, a 1916 drawing by Mina Loy